words Quotes

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Syllables govern the world.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.