Quotes About Words

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

These words are razors to my wounded heart.

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,And leave them honeyless.

It is a heretic that makes the fire,Not she which burns in 't.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.

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

Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

'Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with wordsSince I first call'd my brother's father dad.

Talkers are no good doers.

I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st wordsThat ever blotted paper.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink.

She speaks, yet she says nothing.

Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?

William Shakespeare

Charm ache with air and agony with words.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

Moth: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.Costard: O! they have lived long on the almsbasket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

William Shakespeare

'Tis well said again;And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:And yet words are no deeds.

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