Book of Maccabees Quotes

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

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

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

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

To say more, is to say less.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

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.

Be brief. Above all things be brief.

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

Never say more than is necessary.

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.