"i'm a man of few words"

[Catwoman]

did anybody else feel like harvey dent talked a lot and was a bit affable for someone who is "a man of few words?" lol.

[Azrael]

How many speeches begin with a lie?

[johnnygobbs]

did anybody else feel like harvey dent talked a lot and was a bit affable for someone who is "a man of few words?" lol.

I know 'brevity is the soul of wit' but surely a District Attorney needs to be fairly loquacious, particularly when he's in court.

[Catwoman]

did anybody else feel like harvey dent talked a lot and was a bit affable for someone who is "a man of few words?" lol.

I know 'brevity is the soul of wit' but surely a District Attorney needs to be fairly loquacious, particularly when he's in court.

try that again shakespeare.

[Catwoman]

How many speeches begin with a lie?

touche lmao

[johnnygobbs]

did anybody else feel like harvey dent talked a lot and was a bit affable for someone who is "a man of few words?" lol.

I know 'brevity is the soul of wit' but surely a District Attorney needs to be fairly loquacious, particularly when he's in court.

try that again shakespeare.

You're right.  It's is Shakespeare.  Hamlet to be precise.  Meaning a smart person gets his point across in as few words as possible, and believe me there are plenty of lawyers who should take that advice to heart so maybe Harvey was onto something when he said he was a man of few words.

[Azrael]

There's a version much older than Shakespeare - Το Λακωνιζειν Εστι Φιλοσοφειν (To Lakonizein Esti Philosophein - Laconizing is philosophizing - Laconians=Spartans).

The phrase originated in Athens because they were fed up with the wordiness of the sophists.

[The Dark Knight]

How many speeches begin with a lie?

Ha, yes. Just a way to start a speech, I think.

Also, this is semantics, but also depends on how often he goes "on the record".

Choose your official party line wisely!

[Catwoman]

ohhhhhh i forgot about being on the record. probably was a man of few words there. "mr. dent how are things in the city?" "they suck." lol.

[The Joker]

did anybody else feel like harvey dent talked a lot and was a bit affable for someone who is "a man of few words?" lol.

It's too bad the "Big Bad Harv" alternate personality couldn't have made it's debut in Burton's Batman 1989.

If a heckler attendee at that speech would have atleast called him on it, "Big Bad Harv" suddenly surfacing publicly would have been an interesting way for Billy Dee Williams' Harvey Dent to forebode what was to come. If anything, I'm sure it would have amused Jack Napier as he watched on the boob tube...