"Although Liu Shao-tang reached the age of 80," said a World Tribune editorial, "his death gave people a powerful sense that he had been 'taken too young,'" The comment is indicative of the special regard in which he was held.
坊間世界論壇報甚至在社論中指出，「劉紹唐先生以八十高齡謝世，卻強烈地給人『天不假年』的感覺」，可見其人的不凡。