Words Quotes

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

Anatole France

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

John Christian Bovee

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare

Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.

Antonio Salieri, title of an opera

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Stanislaw Lec

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr.