Brevity Quotes

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do" "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." "Brevity is the soul of wit. " "A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief" "He who talks more is sooner exhausted." "Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive." "Life is short, the art long" "Honestly, I don't have much to say " "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter" "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." "Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive." "The fewer the words, the better the prayer" "One should use common words to say uncommon things" "The more you say, the less people remember" "In this short Life that only lasts an hour how much how little is within our power" "The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it." "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads" "When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain." "Macrology may smell of artifice, but brevity may also cloak falsification." "Good writers are those who keep the language efficient."