Words Quotes

• "The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press."
  By: Heinrich Heine, Religion and Philosophy (preface)
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• "Words are the only things that last forever."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been," More sad are those we daily see, "It is, but it hadn't ought to be.""
  By: Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte), Mrs. Jenkins
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• "Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
  By: Thomas Hardy
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• "At this every lady drew up her mouth as if going to pronounce the letter P."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, Letter to Robt. Bryanton
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• "The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso (II, 2, 201)
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• "The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt, Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust--Vorspiel auf dem Theater (l. 214)
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• "Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (I, 6, 230)
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• "When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "Gentle words, quiet words, are after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."
  By: Washington Gladden
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• "New words and lately made shall credit claim If from a Grecian source they gently stream."
  By: Rev. Philip Francis (1), Horace, Art of Poetry
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• "An undisputed power Of coining money from the rugged ore, Nor less of coining words, is still confessed, If with a legal public stamp impressed."
  By: Rev. Philip Francis (1), Horace, Art of Poetry
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• "'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung."
  By: Abul Qasim Mansur Firdusi (Firdausi or Firdousee)
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• "Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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