“There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Little Man and Little Soul.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Did he not appear to you to be a public man of no little courage, no little candour and no little ability.”
Lord Chief Justice Hewart
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Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.
Larry Niven book Flash Crowd
Flash Crowd, section 9, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 74
“He is the very prototype of the Little Man.”
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
About Adolf Hitler, in "I Saw Hitler!" in Cosmopolitan (1931), later in I Saw Hitler! (1932)<!-- also in "Good Bye to Germany", in Harper's Magazine (December 1934), p. 12 -->
Context: He is formless, almost faceless, a man whose countenance is a caricature, a man whose framework seems cartilaginous, without bones. He is inconsequent and voluble, ill poised and insecure. He is the very prototype of the Little Man. … His movements are awkward. There is in his face no trace of any inner conflict or self-discipline.
And yet, he is not without a certain charm. But it is the soft almost feminine charm of the Austrian! When he talks it is with a broad Austrian dialect. The eyes alone are notable. Dark gray and hyperthyroidic, they have the peculiar shine which often distinguishes geniuses, alcoholics, and hysterics.
“These little things are great to little man.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 42.
Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: My intellect tells me: "Tell the truth at any cost." The Little Man in me says: "It is stupid to expose oneself to the little man, to put oneself at his mercy. The Little Man does not want to hear the truth about himself. He does not want the great responsibility which is his. He wants to remain a Little Man. He wants to remain a Little Man, or wants to become a little great man. He wants to become rich, or a party leader, or commander of a legion, or secretary of the society for the abolition of vice. But he does not want to assume responsibility for his work..."
“The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.”
Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
To Robert Cecil when he said, in her final illness (March 1603), that she must go to bed.
