| Author |
Quotes |
| Baltasar Gracian | Good things, when short, are twice as good. |
| Blaise Pascal | I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. |
| Cicero | Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. |
| Cicero | Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. |
| Dorothy Parker | Brevity is the soul of lingerie. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. |
| Hosea Ballou | Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. |
| John Wayne | Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. |
| Josh Billings | There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. |
| Josh Billings | There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. |
| Judith Viorst | Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you." |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. |
| Martin Luther | The fewer the words, the better the prayer. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. |
| Robert Southey | If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. |
| Saiom Shriver | FOUR FLOWERS The Sun Arose in Morning Glory with His Goldenrod Wanding Violet to Rose . |
| Thomas Jefferson | The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. |
| William Shakespeare | Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. |
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