Logo
I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had

I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Brevity
category

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Brevity

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

Category:
Brevity

Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

Category:
Brevity

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

Category:
Brevity

Random Quotes

Im one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. Im waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside. – Francesca Annis

Category:
great

Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. – Bhagavad Gita

Category:
Attachment

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Conviction

The community of living is the carriage of the Lord. – Proverb

Category:
Community