Usage examples of "avare de paroles" in French with translation to English

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Nancy est avare de sourires. Nancy is economical with her smiles.
Comme c'est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire. Just as it is the tendency of great minds to make one hear much with few words, small minds have a talent for talking a lot, and saying nothing.
Il a lu dans mes paroles un message que je n'avais pas prévu. He read into my words a message that I hadn't intended.
Il était une fois un vieil homme avare qui vivait au village. Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.
Ce furent ses paroles exactes. Those were his actual words.
Mon voisin est un vieil avare grippe-sou qui ne te donnerait même pas l'heure qu'il est. My neighbor is a penny-pinching old miser who won't even give you the time of day.
Il n'y a pas une once de vérité dans ses paroles. There is not a scrap of truth in his words.
C'est vrai qu'il est riche, mais il est avare. It is true he is rich, but he is a miser.
Peu à peu je commençais à comprendre le sens profond de ses paroles. Gradually the true meaning of what he said began to dawn on me.
Ne sois pas si avare. Don't be so greedy.
Ses paroles étaient sincères. His words were heartfelt.
Il a tendance à considérer toute chose sous un angle pratique et n'est ni avare ni prodigue. He is inclined to look at everything from the standpoint of its practicality and is neither stingy nor extravagant.
Ses paroles ne m'apprennent rien du tout. His words convey nothing at all to me.
Un avare amasse de l'argent non pas parce qu'il est prudent mais parce qu'il est avide. A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
Ils ne sont courageux qu'en paroles. They are only bold in what they say.
À quoi font allusion ses paroles ? What do his words imply?
Je réfléchirai à tes paroles. I will bear your words in mind.
J'ai trouvé un jour dans une école un garçon de taille moyenne qui maltraitait un petit garçon. Je lui ai fait la leçon, mais il a répondu : "Les grands me frappent, alors je frappe les petits ; c'est juste." Par ces paroles, il a résumé toute l'histoire du genre humain. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Lorsqu'un imbécile rapporte les paroles d'un homme intelligent, ce n'est jamais exact, puisqu'il traduit inconsciemment ce qu'il entend en quelque chose qui lui est compréhensible. A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
Gardez mes paroles en mémoire. Keep my words in mind.
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