Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit Quotes

#1. Brevity is the soul of wit.

Alexander Pope

#2. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

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

Michael R. Burch

#4. 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

#5. I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing.

Steven Pinker

#6. Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

William Shakespeare

#7. It's not spam if you agree to it," Tony said. "They just won't have much of a choice.

John Scalzi

#8. All the day I held the memory of you, and wove
Its laughter with the dancing light o' the spray,
And sowed the sky with tiny clouds of love ...

Rupert Brooke

#9. I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say ... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

Josh Lucas

#10. The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together. Aided by a librarian who can bring domain knowledge and people knowledge and access to information to bear.

Alan Bennett

#11. What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#12. Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters

Lucy Coats

#13. All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

Fred Wilson

#14. Thank you, brave soldier, for going into battle for me by feeding my fish.

Raine Miller

#15. You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.

Scott Jurek

#16. Think big from the beginning.

Ehab Atalla

#17. Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.

Maggi Myers

#18. It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

Viola Davis

#19. Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

Eve Ensler

#20. To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.

David Pietrusza

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

Judith Viorst

#22. Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.

Dave Mustaine

#23. In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

Robert Mueller