Logo
Quote by Sydney Smith
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

Category:
Courage
Author
Sydney Smith
Read Quote

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

Category:
Happiness
Author
Sydney Smith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Brevity
category

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books — what other men do not say in whole books. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Category:
Brevity

It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Brevity

Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

Category:
Brevity

Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

Category:
Brevity

Random Quotes

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. – Judith Viorst

Category:
Music

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan

Category:
Age

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. – Sting

Category:
Death

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. – Charles Horton Cooley

Category:
Prudence