#Words Quotes

“Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.”

“Tongues I'll hang on every treeThat shall civil sayings show. . . .”

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”

“I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)”

“How much an ill word may empoison liking!”

“I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear”

“Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.”

“How long a time lies in one little word?”

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”

“A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!”

“The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.”

“Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.”

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

“No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.”

“On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.”

“The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.”

“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”

“Words to deeds cold breath gives.”

“Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.”

“She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.”

“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.”

“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”

“Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.”

“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”

“Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.”

“An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.”

“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”

“O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet”

“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.”

“Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.”

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words.”

“The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.”

“Raise your words, not your voice.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?”

“Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.”

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”

“You had better run from me. My words are fire.”

“So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.”

“Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.”

“You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.”

“I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.”

“Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.”

“Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.”

“There is power in words. What you say is what you get.”

“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”

“Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.”

“You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?”

“I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.”