Home » Quote » William Shakespeare » „Brevity is the soul of wit.“ „Brevity is the soul of wit.“ — William Shakespeare Tags:Soul Related quotes „Brevity is the soul of lingerie.“ — Dorothy Parker „There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson „The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.An evil soul producing holy witnessIs like a villain with a smiling cheek,A goodly apple rotten at the heart.O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!“ — William Shakespeare „We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.“ — Maria Montessori „England’s genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit.The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson