Words Quotes

• "My words are only words, and moved Upon the topmost froth of thought."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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• "I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting."
  By: Sir Henry Taylor (2), Philip Van Artevelde (act I, sc. 2)
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• "But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit; And gathering thorns they shake the tree at root; For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end."
  By: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta
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• "The artillery of words."
  By: Jonathan Swift, Ode to Sancroft (l. 13)
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• "Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson
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• "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
  By: Adlai E. Stevenson
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• "Her words but wind, and all her tears but water."
  By: Edmund Spenser
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• "Heaps of huge words uphoarded hideously, with horrid sound, though having little sense."
  By: Edmund Spenser
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• "The arts Babblative and Scriblative."
  By: Robert Southey, Colloquies
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• "Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds."
  By: Socrates
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• "Words are but holy as the deeds they cover."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (act II, sc. 2)
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• "We know not what we do When we speak words."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rosalind and Helen (l. 1,108)
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• "Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Men who have much to say use the fewest words."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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