Fewer Words Quotes

#1. Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

Joseph Butler

#2. I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.

Mark Batterson

#3. By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Betty Hart

#4. I'm going to write ceaselessly about the dignity of human beings no matter who and or what they are, and the less dignity a person has the fewer words I'll use.

Jack Kerouac

#5. You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.

Julie Anne Long

#6. The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it:
Will you go out with me?
I think I like you.
I care for you.
I love you.
Marry me.
Goodbye.

J. Michael Straczynski

#7. I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Voltaire

#9. Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Sophocles

#10. Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

Sarah Hall

#11. Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.

Lorraine Heath

#12. Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

Martin Luther

#13. I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

Emo Philips

#14. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.

George Orwell

#15. House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#16. I like shorter jokes. I like fewer words. I think the more ideas there are the, the fewer words there should be.

Demetri Martin

#17. Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Walter Lippmann

#18. Anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

Jack Campbell

#19. The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

John Rosemond

#20. A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

Peter De Vries

#21. The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.

Christian Cantrell

#22. Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge

T.F. Hodge

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

Robert Breault

#24. We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

John Locke

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

Gautama Buddha

#26. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, I should have used fewer semicolons

Lynne Truss

#27. You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting a big movie, and I got an 85 day shooting schedule or more, then I'm saying I have enough time to shoot option A and B and C and D for every scene.

David Twohy

#28. [ ... ] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'
'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.

Charles Dickens

#29. You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.

Ron Johnson

#30. like planks but narrow. Eyebrows unplucked. In the hours he's spent here fewer than a dozen words have passed between them. She has a Mediterranean look but speaks

A.S.A Harrison

#31. The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther