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I have endeavoured to steer a middle course between the general verbosity of our English statutes, and the extreme brevity of the French criminal code. ... In the bills I have the honour of submitting to the House, a middle course has been steered between the redundancy of our own legal enactments, and the conciseness of the French code.
Robert Peel
In art, conciseness is both a necessity and a luxury; a concise man provokes thought, a wordy man provokes boredom; always move towards conciseness. In the figure, look for the main light and the main shadow, the rest will come of itself: often, it amounts to very little.
Édouard Manet
Conciseness is underrated.
Sarah Dessen
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou
The author of the oldest extant Sanskrit grammar was Panini, a native of extreme north-west India, ... His work consists of nearly 4000 aphorisms, each of which owing to the extreme conciseness of the style, generally consists of not more than two or three words. Hence, the whole grammar could be printed within the compass of about thirty-five octavo pages. Yet it describes the entire Sanskrit language with a completeness which has never been equalled elsewhere. Thus it is at once the shortest and the fullest grammar in the world.
Pāṇini
Nothing is more certain than that much of the force, As well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends on their conciseness.
Alexander Pope
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Samuel Johnson