Definition of Brevity

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Definition of Brevity
	Brevity Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life. Contraction into few words; conciseness. Related Definitions: As, Brevity, Briefness, Conciseness, Contraction, Duration, Few, Human, Into, Life, Of, Shortness, The, Time

Brevity Quotations

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx

Brevity Translations

brevity in Latin is brevitas
brevity in Spanish is brevedad
brevity in Swedish is korthet

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