Brevity to writing is what charity is to all other virtues; righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.
Sydney Smith
Brevity is essential to good writing just as charity is essential to virtue.
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In books, it is the chief of all perfections to be plain and brief.
— Bp. Butler
Brevity is the soul of wit.
— William Shakespeare
Reading makes a full man; conversation, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man.
— Lord Bacon
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
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
— Blaise Pascal
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
— Thomas Jefferson
