Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

I labor to be brief, and manage to be obscure.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

But the shortest works are always the best.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Conciseness is underrated

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

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

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.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

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

Be brief. Above all things be brief.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

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

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

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

Shorth is better than length.

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

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.