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Tag Name "Brevity" (61)

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Brevity never fatigues therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
Theophile Gautier
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Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.
Judith Viorst
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity - the sister of talent.
Anton Chekhov
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Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.
Sharon Lee
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.
Gerald R. Ford
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If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays' and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.
Wilhelm Rontgen
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We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information.
Henry Mintzberg
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
William Shakespeare
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
Horace
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Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
William Shakespeare
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Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.
James J. Kilpatrick
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My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
William Zinsser
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youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
Andre Comte-Sponville
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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
Martial
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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature 2. total objectivity 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects 4. extreme brevity 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype 6. compassion.
Anton Chekhov
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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
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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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