Brevity Quotes

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.

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

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

A mediocre speech can never be too short.

But what is the use of brevity, tell me, when there is a whole book of it?

As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. (Hamlet)

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.