WORDS QUOTES IV

quotations about words

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


Words are powerful. They have the ability to build someone up or tear him down. And that someone includes you too. The words you say to yourself can either motivate you toward your goals, seriously hinder or stall your progress, or prevent you from even starting on your journey.

RACHEL GRICE

"7 Words to Stop Saying Right Now", Yahoo Health, January 24, 2016


First words are critical. Just ask any novelist or screenplay writer.

RICK BROWN

"The first words you need to hear", Your Houston News, January 13, 2016


Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world

DEPECHE MODE

"Enjoy the Silence"


Words are so last year.

BEANO

Twitter post, March 31, 2017


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

MARK TWAIN

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Tags: Mark Twain


After all is said and done, more is said than done.

AESOP

Aesop's Fables

Tags: Aesop


He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Tags: John Locke


In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

Tags: Alexander Pope


Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

Tags: Alexander Pope


My method is to find a word with a gesture.

CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN

An Evolution in Aphorisms

Tags: Christian Morgenstern


Though I do keep lists of words that catch my attention for a variety of reasons, they rarely make it into poems, not infrequently because I lose the lists.

WALTER BARGEN

"An Interview with Walter Bargen", BkMk Press

Tags: Walter Bargen


A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

CHARLES DICKENS

Bleak House

Tags: Charles Dickens


Of what use are good words to an evil heart?

LOUIS BECKE

"Solepa", By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore and Other Stories

Tags: Louis Becke


Fair words never hurt the tongue.

GEORGE CHAPMAN

Eastward Ho

Tags: George Chapman


Talk is never just words.

BERNARD BECKETT

Genesis

Tags: Bernard Beckett


I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Harper's Magazine, November 2010

Tags: Lewis H. Lapham


Word -- that invisible dagger.

EMIL CIORAN

History & Utopia


Written, spoken or read I've always been amazed how one or two words could encourage someone to keep going. Or a devastating sentence could painfully break a person's heart. Even a simple written phrase could change someone's life forever.

HEIDI ALLEN

"Words Are Powerful -- My Journey With Words", Huffington Post, March 14, 2017


Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

GLEN DUNCAN

I, Lucifer

Tags: Glen Duncan