Brevity is highly valued in quotes as they convey meaningful ideas in a concise manner. Quotes about brevity often highlight the power of saying more with fewer words. These quotes emphasize the importance of brevity in communication and how it can lead to greater impact and understanding. They remind us to be precise, clear, and to the point when expressing our thoughts and ideas.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. — Hosea Ballou
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. — William Strunk, Jr.
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness. — Edouard Manet
The shorter and the plainer the better. — Beatrix Potter
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. — Arthur Bryant
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. — Horace
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. — Victor Hugo
Simplicity is the glory of expression. — Walt Whitman
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Horace
A short saying often contains much wisdom. — Sophocles
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters — Julio Cortazar
Short Brevity Quotes
But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. — Prince
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. — Leonhard Euler
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. — William Shakespeare
Even when months and days are long, life is short. — Japanese Proverbs
it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. — Ernest Hemingway
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. — David Belasco
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy. — William Penn
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. — Dennis Roch
The more you say, the less people remember. — Francois FeNelon
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. — Leo Babauta
Brevity Image Quotes
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Literary Quotes
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. — Joseph Pulitzer
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. — Johannes V. Jensen
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. — Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives. — Kathy Acker
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. — Robert Morgan
Brevity Of Life Quotes
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love. — Richard Preston
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us. — Billy Graham
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. — Bertrand Russell
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life. — Billy Graham
Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can...with all that you have...in the place that you are...right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously. — Les Brown
Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity. — Thomas Ken
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
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on. — Cyrus the Great
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling
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 Rontgen
Expressing the matter, in such startling terms, makes it easy to see why philosophers from ancient Greece to the present have taken the brevity of life to be the defining problem of human existence. We’ve been granted the mental capacity to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, but practically no time at all to put them into action. — Oliver Burkeman
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means. — Bela Bartok
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. — Ignatius of Loyola
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. — Arnold Schoenberg
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. — Louise Brooks
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion. — Anton Chekhov
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. — Benjamin Disraeli
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal. — Rudolf Virchow
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. — Mark Twain
This is the very ecstasy of love. — William Shakespeare
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
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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. — Craig Childs
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. — Jim Rohn
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. — Theophile Gautier
In Conclusion
In these quotes, brevity is celebrated as a virtue that allows us to capture the essence of a concept or message without unnecessary elaboration. They encourage us to prioritize substance over verbosity and to distill complex thoughts into simple and impactful statements. These quotes about brevity serve as reminders to value brevity in our daily interactions and to appreciate the beauty and effectiveness of concise expression.
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