Brevity Quotes

12 quotations about Brevity
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou · Brevity
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings · Brevity
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus T. Cicero · Brevity
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus T. Cicero · Brevity
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Tryon Edwards · Brevity
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Francois FeNelon · Brevity
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian · Brevity
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Horace · Brevity
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson · Brevity
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther · Brevity
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Brevity
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
William Shakespeare · Brevity

Authors on Brevity

Hosea Ballou Josh Billings Marcus T. Cicero Tryon Edwards Francois FeNelon Baltasar Gracian Horace Thomas Jefferson Martin Luther Friedrich Nietzsche William Shakespeare