If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.


To the Earl of Manchester, as quoted in the notes to Hudibras (1674), Part 1, Canto 1, by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (1859)

Charles II of England Quotes

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.