Quotes About Words

It is not with saying, Honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.

Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute. That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

Her words held all the pointed innuendo that elderly ladies are able to achieve with the minimum of actual statement.

Only to those who don't know you–who are taken in by your delusive appearance of meekness and decorum.' 'I like your long words.' 'All out of crossword puzzles.' 'So educative.

It seemed unnecessary for her to have had a premonition at all.

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

Le des tin des abstractions est de s'accrocher à vous un instant puis de disparaître. Seuls les mots qui sont des images demeurent. Le reste est un brin de paille. Pourtant il me fallut des années pour me libérer des érudits, de leur tutelle, de leur sourire supérieur, et revenir à mes amis fidèles qui savaient qu'un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une pelote de faiblesses et de peurs.

If I have a creed, this is it: My god is language, written and read. And there is no other god but this.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

That's where the choice words came in, huh? He flashed a conspiratorial grin. "Oh, don't you know it. Choice indeed. So choice you could cut them with a knife and eat them with Heinz 57 sauce.

Fine words have there place, but action is all.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

He didn't sing the language the way the French did, enjoying every word.

There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Gossip is passing on to a person the negative things someone else had said.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

screamed for revenge, but his desires were foiled by his own words, for he yelled out,

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.