Brevity Quotes

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Hosea Ballou

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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Michael Winter

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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Edsger Dijkstra

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After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Anthony Marra

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Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

MacKenzie Bezos

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Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

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