57 Quotes About Brevity

The greater a speech, the longer it can be. The longer a speech, the greater it ought to be.

Some people talk too much without saying a lot.

Verbosity wastes a portion of the reader’s or listener’s life.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no discourse to be current which did not contain in few words a great deal of useful and curious sense.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

If you are not brave, say you are, then be it.