Top 40 Best Brevity Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Brevity Quotes #6908
#2. This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Brandon Sanderson

Best Brevity Quotes #22651
#3. I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

Gerald R. Ford

Best Brevity Quotes #40879
#4. Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Horace

Best Brevity Quotes #70074
#5. The brevity of a human lifespan tormented them as never before, and their hearts soared above the vault of time to join with their descendants and plunge into blood and fire in the icy cold of space, the eventual meeting place for the souls of all soldiers. *

Liu Cixin

Best Brevity Quotes #75399
#6. The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism - an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

Kathryn Schulz

Best Brevity Quotes #81303
#7. Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Protagoras

Best Brevity Quotes #96837
#8. We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary.

Jose Saramago

Best Brevity Quotes #98180
#9. Jurists, with rare exceptions, are unconsciously and tenaciously averse to clarity and brevity.

Gianrico Carofiglio

Best Brevity Quotes #104570
#10. Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Sharon Lee

Best Brevity Quotes #113316
#11. Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

Blaise Pascal

Best Brevity Quotes #125051
#12. I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Robert Frost

Best Brevity Quotes #131801
#13. A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

Best Brevity Quotes #157762
#14. From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Abigail Adams

Best Brevity Quotes #157953
#15. Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

Best Brevity Quotes #162463
#16. After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Anthony Marra

Best Brevity Quotes #164335
#17. Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Theophile Gautier

Best Brevity Quotes #172495
#18. Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Best Brevity Quotes #180344
#19. The brevity of mini (psycho)therapies is another efficient forestaller of healing. The neocortex rapidly master didactic information, but the limbic brain takes mountains of repetition. No one expects to play the flute in six lessons or to become fluent in Italian in ten. (189)

Thomas Lewis

Best Brevity Quotes #188692
#20. Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.

Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

Dimity Powell

Best Brevity Quotes #192598
#21. On the Brevity of Our Ties
Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.

Kentetsu Takamori

Best Brevity Quotes #194683
#22. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

Best Brevity Quotes #214042
#23. If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself ... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Best Brevity Quotes #218263
#24. The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Billy Graham

Best Brevity Quotes #230943
#25. Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life.

Marc Parent

Best Brevity Quotes #236093
#26. Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Ali Smith

Best Brevity Quotes #246792
#27. 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

Best Brevity Quotes #247293
#28. Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

Best Brevity Quotes #256174
#29. What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

Mark Twain

Best Brevity Quotes #259130
#30. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Sol Luckman

Best Brevity Quotes #260188
#31. Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Brevity Quotes #260631
#32. Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

William Shakespeare

Best Brevity Quotes #287163
#33. I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Mark Twain

Best Brevity Quotes #296005
#34. Girls, well, when God was coding their speech pattern, he deliberately left out the brevity parameter. He probably had a good laugh, and did the needful to the other kind to maintain the balance.

Rajat Mishra

Best Brevity Quotes #316716
#35. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

Vita Sackville-West

Best Brevity Quotes #317899
#36. The more you say, the less people remember.

Francois Fenelon

Best Brevity Quotes #320485
#37. Characteristic of such affective equivalents is their brevity - manic-depressive cycles, as generally understood, occupy several weeks, and frequently longer. Monthly

Oliver Sacks

Best Brevity Quotes #430070
#38. Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Rudolf Virchow

Best Brevity Quotes #671577
#39. Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best Brevity Quotes #1436731
#40. Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

Karen Russell

Best Brevity Quotes #1627034

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top