Quotes of: Brevity Keyword

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

Antonio Porchia

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Hosea Ballou

Brevity did not mean inconsequence...

Split Infinity

When I/Don’t know/What to say,/Let me/ Listen.

Poems of Brevity

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Dejan Stojanovic

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Edsger Dijkstra

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

Amit Kalantri

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

While Rome Burns

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

Greg Curtis

Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

M.R. Weston

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

Annie Proulx

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

11/22/63

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Les caractères

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

Night Gate

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

George Eliot

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.

Richard Dawkins

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.

The Sea, the Sea