Brevity Quotes

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 place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.

~ Robert Frost

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 us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

~ Clarence Darrow

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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 at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I've had orgasms lasting longer than our relationship.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Stephen King

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 of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ Amit Kalantri

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

~ Sol Luckman

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

~ Horace

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

~ A.d. Posey

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

~ Oliver Markus

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.

~ Somali K Chakrabarti

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 has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

~ Michel Houellebecq

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

~ George Saunders

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 complexity of thought, not expression.

~ Noah Lukeman

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.

~ Abigail Adams

I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.

~ Sarah Morgan

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 at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.

~ Bede

Brevity is the soul of wit.

~ William Shakespeare

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

~ Blaise Pascal

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero