A Quote by Joseph P. Bradley

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

Joseph P. Bradley

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Joseph P. Bradley
American - Judge
March 14, 1813 - January 22, 1892

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Richard Whately

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

William Hazlitt

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

Gustave Eiffel

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

Myrtle Aydelotte

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Albert Bandura

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Jeremy Collier

I'm not a stickler for appropriateness.

Kemp Muhl

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

Edmund Burke

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

Lois Lowry

rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

John J. McCloy

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Stephen Levine

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.