Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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Caption written for Vogue 1916Dorothy Parker
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Infancy is what is eternal, everything else is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
Saki
Shoulder ... shake ... a little lingerie!
Bill Raftery
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius, in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet's Madness.)
Stephen Jay Gould
Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method.
Sir Sidney Lee
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