Brevity Quotes

Brevity Quotes

Tryon Edwards

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Francois Fenelon

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

Baltasar Gracian

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Ernest Hemingway

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Horace

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.

Robert Southey

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

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