Top 123 Brevity Quotes & Sayings

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

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

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

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?

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

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

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

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

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be paramount. In a novel, however, we can dissect each thought and emotion and build on it.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.

Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

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.

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

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

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

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

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

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

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.