“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Caption written for Vogue 1916
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
“You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.”
"The Match Maker"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
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“What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"What is an Epigram?" http://books.google.com/books?id=xUggAAAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+an+Epigram+A+dwarfish+whole+Its+body+brevity+and+wit+its+soul%22&pg=PA253#v=onepage, The Morning Post, ( 23 September 1802 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000175/18020923/007/0003)
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“The intensity of your feelings isn’t evidence.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 243)
“But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Malcolm Azania book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 8 “Unrequited Hate” (p. 239)
W. H. Auden book Forewords and Afterwords
"The Protestant Mystics", p. 51
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)