Quotes About A Man Of Few Words

#1. While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other

Muhammad Ali

#2. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

Frederick Douglass

#3. 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

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

Sharon Creech

#5. In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Jeremy Renner

#6. My old man is a man of few words.

Scott Eastwood

#7. Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

Rob Thurman

#8. 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

#9. Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.

Nora Roberts

#10. I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off!

Kensington Gore

#11. My father was a man of few words.

Ken Venturi

#12. I'm a man of few words."
"If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

Bill Watterson

#13. You know, Sir Devlan. Many women might find the quiet type endearing," I say. "I admit, a man of few words has an attractive quality." His head turns toward me. "But seeing how you're one of the few people I have to converse with, your lack of conversational skills can be obnoxious.

Trisha Wolfe

#14. Ranger is a man of few words. He's Cuban-American, former Special Forces, he makes a much better friend than an enemy, and he's Vinnie's numero uno bounty hunter.

Janet Evanovich

#15. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Frank Gorshin

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

Jamey Johnson

#18. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

Yann Martel

#19. 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

#20. A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.

John Updike

#21. For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely.

Melanie Dickerson

#22. 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.

Brigham Young

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

Abigail Adams

#24. It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

John Bartholomew Gough

#25. Katie." He groaned. "I burn for you."

Just a few husky words, but coming from a man so taciturn, she thought they must equal reams of poetry.

Tessa Dare

#26. at man's height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying

Michel Leiris

#27. A man of many thoughts but few words. Lucky for us all that it's not the other way around. Vidocq

Richard Kadrey

#28. To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

Paul Ricoeur

#29. What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.

Henri Charriere

#30. The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

Aristotle.

#31. What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. 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