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Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Brevity'
9 entries
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman (1771- )
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet (1772-1834)
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist (1930-2002)
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, English Critic (1839-1894)
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet (1886-1968)
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx, American Journalist (1935- )
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
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