“What is the short meaning of the long speech?”

— Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein

Act I, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

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German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

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“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”

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“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

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"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Context: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

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Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Reader’s Digest (May 1979)