Shakespeare Brevity Quotes & Sayings

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

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. — Virginia Postrel

We need to get behind the surface appearances if we are to act coherently in the world. Otherwise, acting in response to misleading surface signals typically produces disastrous outcomes. — David Harvey

Coffee refreshes the body," says Shara. "Tea refreshes the soul. — Robert Jackson Bennett

You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for hourse and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory
what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination is our "flooding. — Toni Morrison

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

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable. — Tim Brookes

Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything. Instead devote ... — Gautama Buddha

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs. — Harold Larwood

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. — Peter Drucker

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all. — William Shakespeare

I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball. — Lamorne Morris

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either. — Bear Bryant

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it. — Vir Das

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing. — Sarah Dessen