Few Words Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Few Words

Few Words Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Few Words quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full. — Richard J. Foster

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

A man of few words,
I just sit still on this hill,
I know death will persist,
I write when my mind is still,
I bleed daily to exist. — P.J. Bayliss

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

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words. — Dejan Stojanovic

After everything we've done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify. — Courtney Milan

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

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

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days. — Michael Scott

Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes — Grabe

Agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key — F Scott Fitzgerald

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. — Viggo Mortensen

Do not write for the many who would disparage your words but for the few who would die if not for the consumption of your works. — J.N. Race

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. — Blaise Pascal

Who Dares Wins...
I Dared...

Words spoken by many, but realised by few.. — Ashton E. Silver

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

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

To be of few words is natural. — Laozi

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with. — Paul Fleischman

Fine. A man - faerie - of few words. I had killed his friend, was an unwanted guest. I wouldn't want to talk to me, either. — Sarah J. Maas

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

Few words have been misunderstood more than "love," perhaps with the exception of "God — Akemi G

Do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be. — William Gaddis

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,
there's something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi

Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead. — Sophy Burnham

A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking. — John Updike

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written. — Jimi Hendrix

Then Mum died. And Dad grew even quieter. As if she took away with her the few words he'd possessed. — Fredrik Backman

Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway. — Jennifer Niven

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

Don't try to provoke me, you won't win because of few words... I will be just quite because you are under my level! — Deyth Banger

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

I thought I'd learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time. — Kiersten White

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. — Norman Mailer

You never know when a moment and a
few sincere words can have an impact on a life. — Zig Ziglar

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

You are beautiful. Definitely worth a few milksop words of dribble. (Stryder) — Kinley MacGregor

Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield. — Sharon Creech

Firefighter is one of the few jobs kind enough to warn me away by containing two words I'm not interested in, unlike the deceptive bookkeeper. — Joel Stein

She knew few words and believed in none. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I? — Brandon Sanderson

One secret to wisdom:
think more, speak less.
If you let your words be few,
your troubles will not be many. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence. — Tom Perrotta

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

Say what it is you have to say in as few words as possible. Make your message crystal clear. — Ernst Jones

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

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. — Judy Garland

Just don't leave anything unsaid to the people who matter. It only takes a few words to change your world. — James Hannah

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer. — Bill Peterson

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide. — Charles Simmons

Men who had the capacity to apologize - and who knew the right words with which to do it - were few and far between. — Faith Hunter

Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41) — William Shakespeare

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

He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them means, people said, but not when he was within hearing. — Terry Pratchett

Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words. — Sophie Kinsella

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

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. — Victoria Secunda

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

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words. — J.K. Rowling

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. — Christopher Paolini

He shouted something in Jason's ear, but Jason could only make out a few words: THING ... DOWN ... STOP IT! — Rick Riordan

Sonofamotherfuckinggoddamnbitch! JaysustiittyfuckingChrist!
That was Lor. Man of few words. — Karen Marie Moning

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire

How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words? — Chloe Neill

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images. — Bruce Jackson

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. — George Eliot

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care. — Simon Sinek

Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life. — Craig Groeschel

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth. — Shannon Hale

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was. — Charles M. Schulz

I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off! — Kensington Gore

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

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. — William Penn

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. — Carl Sandburg

My father was a man of few words. — Ken Venturi

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

Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring
— Virginia Woolf

I think that those few words were my greatest mistake. — Anita Brookner

With few words, one can speak the truth. — Bryan Adams

For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely. — Melanie Dickerson

We have given sorrow many words, but a passion for life few. — Kay Redfield Jamison

He was one of the few people who had spoken to me as though his words were not rocks and I was not glass. — Meredith Norton

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many. — Arthur C. Clarke

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss. — Seanan McGuire

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood

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

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words. — Jon Voight

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

Was something very new and strange in his life that these few words of trust from a woman should be so much to him. — George Eliot

Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy. — Robin Hobb

Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah! — George Armstrong Custer

How narrow is the gate and strait is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it!6 are words of our Lord. 8. The narrow gate — San Juan De La Cruz

Let thy words be few. I agree, but only if my ink can relentlessly run. — Delano Johnson