BISOW........ (Brevity is the soul of Wit)
ANKALA V SUBBARAO Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
UNKNOWN What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."
JUDITH VIORST Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I wil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I wil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Impropriety is the soul of wit.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
WM SHAKESPEARE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
SOMALI K CHAKRABARTI Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
ANTONIO PORCHIA Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING Screenwriting is made of brevity.
A.D. POSEY I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
CICERO I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
...
BLAISE PASCAL I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - th...
SAMUEL SMILES There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on
HORACE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Like water our ideals for writing what seems at first to be a calling to pen a masterpiece, it at fi...
ABIGAIL GEORGE This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The brevity of life is grace to walk on your own path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
HOSEA BALLOU Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction
HOSEA BALLOU William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is hav...
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
CICERO Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies...
N.T. WRIGHT The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakespeare, and his Bible, but pores greed...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
STEFAN EMUNDS Brevity in quotes is their virtue, verbosity their vice.
DAVID L. HATTON FOUR FLOWERS
The Sun Arose
in Morning Glory
with His Goldenrod
Wanding Violet
to Rose
(to C and R Da...
SAIOM SHRIVER It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not...
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
JOHN WAYNE Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condense...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
BIBLE, ECCLESIASTICUS I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
BLAISE PASCAL In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN