Top 100 Little Man Quotes
#1. God was singing through this little man to all the world.
Peter Shaffer
#3. It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy.
David Kirschner
#4. Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#5. Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli
#6. Dead bodies plus a hit of absinthe are really the best cure for that insane little man.
Michelle Gable
#7. Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master, a paymaster, for God's love? You silly little man.
Patrick O'Brian
#8. And I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I ... I hurt no more, while you ... you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.
Kellie Elmore
#9. What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#10. Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday
J. Cole
#12. You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.
Tom Stoppard
#13. Any human who tried to stamp on a Feegle would find that the little man he thought was under his boot was now in fact climbing up his trouser leg, and after that the day could only get worse.
Terry Pratchett
#14. He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.
John Bellairs
#15. As I was sipping the hot liquid, I realized that I had developed a kind of liking for this little man on the verge of death.
Haruki Murakami
#16. Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
Sojourner Truth
#17. You are a sad, strage little man.
Tim Allen
#18. Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.
Sri Chinmoy
#20. It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.
Wilhelm Reich
#21. The little man with beard and glasses leaped up. 'There's nobody here has anything to do with governments! We're all good people!
Philip K. Dick
#22. Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at the top of a mountain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.
Charles Kingsley
#24. Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I
#25. That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.
Randy Houser
#26. We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
Paul Eluard
#27. Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.
Edith Sitwell
#28. I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!
Anne Frank
#29. To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe
#30. This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.
Charlotte Bronte
#31. What's this business about the 'little man in the canoe?' If it's big enough for a canoe, it's too big for me.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#32. Far from being this big, booming voice, the Daily Mail is just a little man behind a curtain.
Steve Coogan
#33. How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one?
Charles Dickens
#34. This notary was a little man, completely round, round in every part. His head looked like a ball nailed onto another ball, supported by two legs that were so tiny and so short that they also closely resembled balls.
Guy De Maupassant
#35. He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can't talk to. It's an awareness; it's a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder's going to take over and tell him what to do. And he's done it well.
Don Sutton
#36. The proud little man was accompanied by three discreet touches of male vanity: a gold watch chain hanging from his dapper white waistcoat, a polka-dotted silk cravat held tightly to his high collar by a pearl stickpin, and his thirty-six-year-old wife.
Bill Dedman
#37. I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.
Brian McFadden
#38. Felix," he whispered. "Oh, little man. Oh, Felix. That fire ... the fire is
beautiful.
T.J. Klune
#39. (Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#40. As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
Jack Levine
#41. those unfortunate enough to be killed by Smee generally die thinking, What a dear little man.
Heidi Schulz
#42. If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
#44. I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.
Preston Sturges
#45. Don't stop at the Ford's because they're at Gerald Flatt's," a short kid says in passing.
"Super dooper!" Granny's dentures clickity-clack. "Don't stomp on the Lord just because it's raining cats." She nods and adjusts her hearing aid. "Those are words to live by, little man!
Jenny B. Jones
#46. Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
Charles Lamb
#48. He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.
Marion Chesney
#49. A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. "That's Robert Speer," one said. "Something like that. He's our man.
Marge Piercy
#50. Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
Anthony Trollope
#52. If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
William Cowper
#53. I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
James Joyce
#54. Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.
Sylvia Plath
#55. He was not the Empire - not every moment of oppression and indignity and torment she had ever suffered. He was an Imperial, a petty, spiteful, scared little man who'd forgotten his own atrocities.
Alexander Freed
#56. Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
Lucan
#57. A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
Arthur Miller
#58. I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
Edward Dahlberg
#59. Making a sound that was both a laugh and a sob, Kellan stared into his son's eyes. "Hey, little man," he whispered. "I'm your dad, and I love you ... so much." Voice quavering, he added, "I'm so glad you're here.
S.C. Stephens
#60. Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a note. The little man jerked back as though he'd been shot.
Diana Gabaldon
#61. I am so stupid, little man," I told Phillip. "No you're not. Lizzie in my class, she's stupid. She eats her boogers. You don't do that. I've been watching.
Mary Calmes
#62. And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.
William Hope Hodgson
#63. The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.
Robert James Waller
#64. Fashion is that horrid little man with an evil eye who tells you that your last winter's coat may be in perfect physical condition, but you can't wear it. You can't wear it because it has a belt and this year 'we are not showing belts.
Elizabeth Hawes
#65. By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
Maria Montessori
#66. I'm going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I'll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in a hurricane!"
"Wow," I said, reaching an intersection and taking cover by an old mailbox.
"What?" Tia asked.
"That was a really good metaphor.
Brandon Sanderson
#67. Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'
George Washington Carver
#68. I am always able to speak with him (Christ) inwardly. But I am nevertheless just a lowly little man who does not always reach all the way up to him.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
#69. The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
A. D. Gordon
#70. The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work
Shiv Khera
#71. I thought you were going to be a grey little man like most of us but you outshone us all. When your times comes, Guntram, you could look Death in the face and tell her, 'I go now but how I lived my life!
Tionne Rogers
#72. I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
John Steinbeck
#73. The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
W. Somerset Maugham
#74. We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
Alvar Aalto
#75. Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends."
"You're a twisted little man."
"Come on, Stretch, share with the class."
"No!" I laughed.
"Prude."
"Perv."
"Schoolmarm."
"Some other word that essentially means perv.
Molly Harper
#76. I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#77. The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.
Josephine Tey
#78. You're more than that," said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; "you're a humbug." "Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug.
L. Frank Baum
#79. All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbours was that, if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.
Harper Lee
#80. I felt sorry for this little man with the big name as he strutted his stuff, feeding hungrily off the adoration he saw in others' eyes. For all his funniness, he seemed to me very sad.
Sue Ellen Browder
#81. I am the sea witch. I am the tide you fear and the turning you can't deny. I am the sound of the waves running over your bones on the beach, little man, and I am not amused at finding you on my doorstep.
Seanan McGuire
#82. I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
Edmund Burke
#83. And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.
Cassandra Clare
#84. You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
George R R Martin
#85. Rincewind switched to High Borogravian, to Vanglemesht, Sumtri and even Black Oroogu, the language with no nouns and only one adjective, which is obscene. Each was met with polite incomprehension. In desperation he tried heathen Trob, and the little man's face split into a delighted grin.
Terry Pratchett
#86. The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
Myles Munroe
#88. Nope. Too Much," Marin said, and tossed the little man out of the hospital window. She needed coffee. Either that or a large dose of Thorazine.
Tracey Clark
#89. In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.
Colson Whitehead
#90. You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.
Huey Long
#91. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.
Laurie R. King
#92. I pulled a packet of Cold Flake from my pocket. "Cliff, you're a marvel. Will you have a cigarette?" "It 'ud be like givin' a pig a strawberry," the little man replied,
James Herriot
#93. One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man
Virginia Woolf
#94. What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you're trying to identify?Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?
John Steinbeck
#95. At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
Winston Churchill
#96. There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
Alan Villiers
#97. Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief
'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'
Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind
'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind'
James Thomson
#98. There was very little man left within his eyes - she knew a beast when she saw one, knew short, simple words worked best, most often to tame or quiet an impending attack. But in this case
"More," she breathed.
Erin Kellison
#99. You dress like that all the time. Like a man."My eyes widened. "I don't dress like a man," I said. "I dress practically. Because I live on a farm. And do icky, farmy things all the time."
Lorenz grinned, which was breathtaking. "A cute little man.
Cate Tiernan
#100. I am Athena. Before that I was Thea, singer and slave and lover of gladiators. Before that I was Leah, daughter of Benjamin and Rachael of Masada. I am as mortal as you, you common little man. And I fear no one!
Kate Quinn
