Few Words Quotations

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

My father was a man of few words.

My old man is a man of few words.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words...

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am a trannycatcher! Just kidding!

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.

For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

She knew few words and believed in none.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.