Best Little Man Quotes
61 Little Man quotes by 58 unique authors
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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
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It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
— John Updike
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When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back…
— Mitchell Zuckoff
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her…
— Julian Fellowes
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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!…
— John Bellairs
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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…
— Sojourner Truth
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Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end…
— Raymond Chandler
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Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It…
— Pat Barker
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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…
— Josephine Tey
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You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on…
— Wilhelm Reich
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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…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded sadly…
— Derek Landy
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The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.
— Gregory Maguire
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Tabitha blinked innocently. "Why is your consort speaking to me without my having addressed him first?" she asked Kaia. "Have you not taught him the…
— Gena Showalter
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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,…
— Paul Eluard
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Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by…
— Anchee Min
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In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little…
— George R. R. Martin
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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
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What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched…
— Douglas Adams
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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
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
— John Lubbock
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