A Quote by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

Michael R. Burch

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Brevity Levity Soul Then Whole Wit

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Michael R. Burch
American - Poet
Born: February 19, 1958

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

Judith Viorst

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Theophile Gautier

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Martial

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

William Shakespeare

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

Arthur Lynch

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

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

Antonio Porchia

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.