Words Quotes

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Ernest Hemingway

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Neil Gaiman

Quem diria que as palavras que nunca chegamos a dizer assentassem tão pesadamente?

Jodi Picoult

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

Albert Einstein

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Jodi Picoult

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off

William Shakespeare

All words are part true and part false.

Master Kahn

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Jodi Picoult

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Philip Roth

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

Samuel Johnson

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Ed Hays

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself

Mark Twain

... for words have the power to change us.

Cassandra Clare

Unless followed by the world 'education', has now lost this meaning [seeking knowledge or doing something for its own sake -- i.e. 'freely' with no exterior motive]. For that loss, so damanging to the whole of our cultural outlook, we must thank those who made it the name, first of a political, and then a religious, party. The same irresponsible rapacity, the desire to appropriate a word for its 'selling-power', has often done linguistic mischief. It is not easy now to say at all in English what the word would have said if it had not been 'cornered' by politicians. , , , and have been destroyed in the same way. Sometimes the arrogation is so outrageous that it fails; the Quakers have not killed the word . And sometimes so many different people grab at the coveted word for so many different groups or factions that, while it is spoiled for its original purpose, none of the grabbers achieve secure possession. is an example; it will probably end by being a term of eulogy as vague as .

C.S. Lewis

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect

Blaise Pascal

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Kahlil Gibran

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Izaak Walton