Quotes About Brevity


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
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. 
Thomas Jefferson
I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
 Charles Caleb Colton
He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. 
Rabelais
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
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. 
David Belasco
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney Smit
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. 
Dennis Roth
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. 
Robert Southey
 

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