Words Quotes

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Hannah Arendt

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

W. Gladden

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Chinese Proverb

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

Stephen King

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.<br/>Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.<br/>Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.<br/>Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.<br/>Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.<br/>Elves are terrific. They beget terror.<br/>The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.<br/>No one ever said elves are nice.<br/>Elves are bad.

Terry Pratchett

What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other

Jane Austen

Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman

Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Josef Stalin

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Virginia Woolf

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Burt Bacharach

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Bremer

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

John Locke