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Brevity Quotes

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Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
Protagoras

Authors on Brevity Quotes: Stephen King Antonio Porchia Protagoras Maureen Johnson Rudolf Virchow Voltaire Edsger Dijkstra Horace Katherine Cecil Thurston Theophile Gautier Benjamin Disraeli Marcus Tullius Cicero Sharon Lee Brandon Sanderson Georg C. Lichtenberg Robert Breault Anton Chekhov Hector Hugh Munro
2.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Voltaire

3.
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
Brandon Sanderson

4.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
Benjamin Disraeli

5.
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
Rudolf Virchow

6.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

7.
Brevity - the sister of talent.
Anton Chekhov

8.
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
Theophile Gautier

9.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Stephen King

10.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia

11.
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra

12.
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
Horace

13.
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
Hector Hugh Munro

14.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
Robert Breault

15.
No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
Katherine Cecil Thurston

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

17.
Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.
Sharon Lee

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Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
Georg C. Lichtenberg