Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit Quotes & Sayings

To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics. — David Pietrusza

You revel in the smoke that the words send up. — Toni Morrison

When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness. — Stephen Jay Gould

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe. — Isabel Allende

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize. — Viggo Mortensen

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch

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

I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing. — Steven Pinker

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots.
But Mother was cremated. This means that she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn't ask at the creamatorium because I didn't go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up and I think that there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rain forests in Brazil, or snow somewhere. — Mark Haddon

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! — Henry Ward Beecher

I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while. — Lorelei Linklater

Brevity is the soul of wit. — Alexander Pope

Love is my strength, power, and shelter. — Debasish Mridha

Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, — William Shakespeare

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situation. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted. — Aldous Huxley

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you. — Judith Viorst