(19 quotes found)
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Dorothy Parker
“Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.”
William Zinsser
“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief”
William Shakespeare
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator”
“Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction”
Hosea Ballou
“Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.”
Antonio Porchia
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity”
Jean de la Bruyere
