When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make...

The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit...

A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

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

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to ‘lay it on’ in the telling. Aim for...

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth...

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death...

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I’d like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth’s the right...

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

My liege, and madam, to expostulateWhat 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...

Against the censurers of brevity. – Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not...

Brevity is the soul of wit.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”(Letter 16, 1657)

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

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.