Quotes Tagged With :brevity

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened,....

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept....

God helps the brave.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to....

The fewer the words the better prayer.

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown....