Brevity Quotes
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Loading ...Brevity is the soul of the wit, how often have we heard this but we keeep going on and on and on and never get to the point. Here are some brevity quotes that will remind each time you try to beat around the bush.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~Baltasar Gracian
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
~ Josh Billings
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~Baltasar Gracian
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.
~William Shakespeare
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~Dennis Roth
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Concentration alone conquers.
~ Charles Buxton
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
~ Francis Bacon
As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
~ George Santayana
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
The one prudence in life is concentration.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A verse may finde him who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
~ George Herbert
I saw one excellency was within my reach–it was brevity and I determined to obtain it.
~ John Jay
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