Quotes About Brevity

Here you'll find quotes about brevity that can provide inspirational guidance to those seeking to limit words and express better meaning quickly. Sometimes, it is the shortest and briefest of speech that makes the best point whereas a longer series of words only serves to confuse. The art of brevity is one that you may wish to develop or wish others do.

"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." Robert Southey
"Brevity is the only way to make a less than favourable comment without beating the issue to a pulp." Byron Pulsifer
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. " Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought." Dennis Roth
"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there." Branch Rickey


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If you can't make you point by choosing a few words, then you don't have a clear understanding of what it is you want to say.
Byron Pulsifer

If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.
Lord Sandwich

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Mark Twain

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.
Mark Twain

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Horace

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