words Quotes

“You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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“false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

― Plato, Phaedo

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