Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

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.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.

I don't talk in sound bites.

People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

The best sentence? The shortest.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.