“I apologize for such a long letter—I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
As commonly credited to Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut and Benjamin Franklin
- Credited to
- Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut and Benjamin Franklin
- Actually said by
- Blaise Pascal
- Earliest known
- 1657
Findings
I’ve heard this quote primarily cited as Mark Twain, but when researching I found that it has numerous attributions. It was written, partially and in the same spirit, by Blaise Pascal.
The original
“I have made this one longer only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”