Brevity In Literature Quotes & Sayings

Not all change is progress. — Woodrow Wilson

We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us. — Walter Scott

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman. — Rebecca St. James

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer. — Patrick Ness

The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself ... [ ... ] ... a coward cares only for his own body," Toshaway said, "and he loves it above all other things. The brave man loves other men first and himself last. Nahkusuaberu?"
I nodded.
"This" - he tapped me - "must mean nothing to you." The he tapped me again, on my face, my chest, my belly, my hands and feet. "All of this means nothing. — Philipp Meyer

Seems to me that when you add a pretty girl into the mix, that's when you give a dangerous man something to really be dangerous for. — Jay Crownover

Well, I guess this works too, Nightblood noted, voice feeling distant now. — Brandon Sanderson

To write good poems is the secret of brevity. — Dejan Stojanovic

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. — Kahlil Gibran

Prayer is the life of the soul. — Madame De Stael

It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself. — Reginald Horace Blyth

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work. — Greg Smith

You never know which Elle you're going to see day to day, because I wake up in different moods. — Elle King

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun. — Micky Dolenz

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself. — John Schlesinger