Cat Thompson Quotes

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

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

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

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

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily.

Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.