Brevity Quotes

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

No speech can be entirely bad if it is short enough.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

A mediocre speech can never be too short.

But what is the use of brevity, tell me, when there is a whole book of it?