Top Brevity Quotes
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater
Edsger Dijkstra 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
Hosea Ballou 
Walter Pater 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
William Shakespeare All Brevity Quotes
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx
51% of people like this quote
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
48% of people like this quote