Brevity is concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.

1. Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker

2. Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

3. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit. And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,. I will be brief.
William Shakespeare

4. If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco

5. Caption written for Vogue, 1916] Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker

6. My four articles of faith, clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
William Zinsser

7. Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

8. The brevity of speech should not deny its grace, otherwise it will be rough.
Marcus Quintilianus

9. A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
Don Marquis

10. Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.
Thomas Ken

11. For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.
Jim Rohn

12. Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues – righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.
Sydney Smith

13. Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

14. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

15. This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Rudyard Kipling

16. Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra

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

18. The accuracy and brevity are the first advantages of a dignity.
Alexander Pushkin

19. What is an Epigram1 A dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

20. The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
Billy Graham

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

22. [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion
Anton Chekhov

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

24. Brevity is the sister of talent.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

25. On the Brevity of Our Ties. Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.
Kentetsu Takamori

26. To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
Dejan Stojanovic

27. Four basic premises of writing,clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser

28. The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
W.J. Davison

29. Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
Theophile Gautier

30. All bodies are transparent to this agent…. For brevity’s sake I shall use the expression ‘rays’; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them ‘X-rays.
Wilhelm Röntgen

31. It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
Maureen Johnson

32. Accuracy and brevity are the first virtues of prose. It requires ideas, otherwise brilliant expressions cost nothing
Anonymous

33. The challenge is not to pen down a sensitivity thought with clarity and brevity, but then to make it understand or accept in totality to the vast majority.
Anuj Somany

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

35. Partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all over the place. At least, I’m presuming they’re lying all over the place; I seem to have temporarily lost most of them. When the World Cup is over, and we clear away the piles of betting slips and wall charts, some of them will, presumably, reappear. I wrote in this column recently about Muriel Spark’s novels, their genius and their attractive brevity, but there is an obvious disadvantage to her concision: her books tend to get buried under things. I can put my hands on Dennis Lehane’s historical novel The Given Day whenever I want, simply because it is seven hundred pages long
Nick Hornby

36. You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
Hector Hugh Munro

37. 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

38. Love is the most powerful force in the entire universe.
Mike Hazelwood

39. Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.
Cyrus The Great

40. Brevity is an advantage which protects a bad product from severe reproaches and a boring book reader from boredom.
Karl Ludwig Boerne

41. I like brevity. Undisciplined people write long; they don’t bother to edit – mostly because they have no idea what they want say. When Brian De Palma and I were working on Body Double together he said to me, If you can’t say it in 90 minutes, then you shouldn’t bother saying it at all.
Robert J. Avrech

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43. Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.
Charles H. Spurgeon

44. When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.
William Strunk

45. For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459… by the letter e.
Leonhard Euler

46. Savagery creates cruelty and brevity creates brevity.
Anonymous

47. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

48. Brevity and courage can withstand any weapon.
Plutarch

49. Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.
Bela Bartok

50. There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
Horace

51. Thy great name In all its awful brevity, hath nought Unholy breeding it, but doth bless
Rather the tongue that uses it; for me, I ask no higher office than to fling My spirit at Thy feet, and cry Thy name,
God! through eternity.
Philip James Bailey

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

53. No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
Katherine Cecil Thurston

54. Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
Ignatius Loyola

55. Brevity is the soul of wit.Men of few words are the best men.
William Shakespeare

56. 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

57. This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We Have trouble with the concept of brevity.
Brandon Sanderson

58. Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.
Arthur Lynch

59. It is better to pray often with brevity than rarely but at length.
D. A. Carson

60. All bodies are transparent to this agent…. For brevity’s sake I shall use the expression ‘rays’; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them ‘X-rays.
Wilhelm Röntgen