15 Brevity Quotes for You to Enjoy

Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare

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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. Saint Ignatius

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words. Patricia Marx

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After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.' Anthony Marra

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

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. Hosea Ballou

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Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure. Justin Theroux

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In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be paramount. In a novel, however, we can dissect each thought and emotion and build on it. Kanika Dhillon

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot. MacKenzie Bezos

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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. Michael Winter

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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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