Quotes on Few Words

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.

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?

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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.

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

Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much. It had little to do with Dumbledore as Harry had known him. He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words, "nitwit," "oddment," "blubber," and "tweak," and again had to suppress a grin.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

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 great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

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.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

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