"Concision" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... protested SHAW-LEFEVRE, sternly! "it is preaching; why cannot a man be concise? Concision, if I may coin a word, is the soul of argument. My old friend DIZZY used to say to me, 'SHAW, what I admire about LEFEVRE is his terseness. If you want a man to say in twenty minutes everything ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 • Various
... tendency when he wrote his own poetry, he knew when concision was a virtue in the poetry of others. There is no better description of the Voelsunga Saga than the above line, and William Morris gave the English people a literal version of the saga, if mayhap that strenuous ...
— The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature • Conrad Hjalmar Nordby |
