A Quote by Theophile Gautier

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

Theophile Gautier

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Always Brevity Guest Never Therefore Welcome

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Theophile Gautier
French - Novelist
August 30, 1811 - October 23, 1872

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

Michael R. Burch

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

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.