Brevity to writing is what charity is to all other virtues; righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship wit…

— Sydney Smith

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

Reading makes a full man; conversation, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man.

— Lord Bacon

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

— Blaise Pascal

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams the more they are condensed, the deeper they bu…

— Southey

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

— Thomas Jefferson