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