Few Words Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

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

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.

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.

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.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

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.

My old man is a man of few words.

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

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

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

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

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

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?

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

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

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

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

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

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.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

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

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.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

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

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

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

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

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.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

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.

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.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

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

She knew few words and believed in none.

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!

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

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.

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

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.