Brevity Quotes

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. (Ecclesiasticus 32:8)

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

No speech can be entirely bad if it is short enough.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don’t mean one who’s polished, I just mean one who’s through.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.

For brevity is very good, where we are, or are not understood.