Joseph Joubert Quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

To say more, is to say less.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

But the shortest works are always the best.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Be brief. Above all things be brief.

Never say more than is necessary.

Conciseness is underrated

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Exactitude is not truth.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.