1.
Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)
William Shakespeare
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
2.
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.
David Whyte
3.
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant
4.
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.
James Cagney
5.
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!
J. K. Rowling
6.
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Abigail Adams
8.
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
Joan Aiken
9.
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
Epictetus
10.
Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
Paul Washer
11.
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.
Francois Fenelon
12.
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.
Elie Wiesel
13.
You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.
Sylvia Day
14.
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
Daido Moriyama
16.
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
Jeanne Moreau
17.
The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
Martin Luther
19.
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
Neil Diamond
20.
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?
Dale Carnegie
21.
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
Moses ibn Ezra
22.
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
Michelangelo
24.
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Tim Ferriss
25.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand
26.
Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.
Scott Snyder
28.
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
29.
Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
Gautama Buddha
30.
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
Roger Ebert
31.
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.
Eric Hoffer
32.
With few words, one can speak the truth.
Bryan Adams
33.
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
Frank Muir
34.
He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.
David Beckham
35.
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
Eckhart Tolle
36.
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.
Brigham Young
37.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
Robert Breault
38.
Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
Albert Camus
39.
The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.
Will Rogers
40.
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.
Ellen Goodman
42.
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
Patricia Moyes
43.
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
Sol Stein
44.
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46.
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!
Margaret Cho
47.
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.
Carolyn Warner
48.
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.
Winston Graham
49.
To be of few words is natural.
Laozi
50.
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
Anna Brownell Jameson