words Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Don't imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.

I've never owned a T-shirt. I don't like vests or sweaters or cardies with zips. I like a proper shirt with a collar. There's nothing else that I think I look nice in. I don't think there's anything else that other men look nice in, to be honest. Things with words on! Can you imagine? On grown-ups! Words are to make books with.

Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But it's the encouraging of half the people of America and many more besides to hate words, hate what words can do, hate thought, hate the liberal, the sophisticated, the metropolitan. It's anger-making.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.