Logo
Quote by Robert Southey
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with su

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

Other quotes by Robert Southey

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. – Robert Southey

Category:
Goodbye
Author
Robert Southey
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Brevity
category

If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure. – Lord Sandwich

Category:
Brevity

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

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

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

Category:
Brevity

Random Quotes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
Forgiveness

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. – Thomas Fuller

Category:
Gratitude

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is lifes parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. – Simone de Beauvoir

Category:
Age

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect. – Shia LaBeouf

Category:
respect