paucity quotes

Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.

- Leon Battista Alberti
  On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

It isverystrange, and verymelancholy, thatthepaucityof humanpleasuresshould persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
Quoted in Mrs Piozzi  Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786).

The horrorof theTwentieth Century was the size of each event, and the paucity of its reverberation. 540

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
  Of  A Fire On The Moon, pt.1, ch.2.

The liberty that the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by the governmental machinery that he lives under, whether representative or otherwise, but by the paucity of restraints that it imposes upon him.

- Herbert Spencer
  The ManVersus the State.