Little Men Quotes

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men but by the little ones.

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

With his gigantic personality, my grandfather burst onto the great political panorama of that era made up only of little men with little ideas.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

This is what confuses me. People say, 'I believe that we landed on the Moon' but then they find it really far fetched that there can't be other planets where little men haven't travelled to ours.

Little things are great to little men.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.