Words, words, words.


William Shakespeare

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IAN DOESCHER
I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new word...
ADAM MANSBACH
Acta est fabula, plaudite
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Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
G. K. CHESTERTON
The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Words are only words
JUDE MORGAN
There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.
TILLIE OLSEN
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; p...
LAO TZU
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; p...
LAO-TZU
It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
DAVID DENMAN
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying ...
BO BURNHAM
I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Fe...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like &#...
JIM LEACH
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used bef...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the ...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
I know words. I have the best words.
DONALD J. TRUMP
Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.
MISCHA TEMAUL
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my ...
ZOE WANAMAKER
I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that c...
CHELLIE PINGREE
...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English langu...
DONALD MILLER
I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.
ANKITA SINGHAL
When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a S...
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE
Be healing with your words, be tender with your words, be gentle with your words and watch your word...
HEATHER WOLF
Some of his words were not Sunday-school words.
MARK TWAIN
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
TOM STOPPARD
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
OSCAR WILDE
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN
real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And ...
JOHN GREEN
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspir...
INGA MUSCIO
He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed ...
LAUREN HAMMOND
Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align ...
JOHN R. DALLAS JR.
Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
LAO TZU
Words will always be the words, the world will change.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA
Your words will be tested. Your words will be verified.
MITTA XININDLU
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
CONFUCIUS
Don't listen the words, hear the reason of the words.
TAMAS LAKOMETZ
Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in wo...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sw...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
J.J. MCAVOY
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk.
UNKNOWN
“Words matter. Change your words and you will change your world”
JEFF KRANTZ
For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.
KATE MOSSE
I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
JIM BUTCHER
Words are but empty thanks.
COLLEY CIBBER
The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not...
ANNA SEWELL
Words writ in waters.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience...
GUY WETMORE CARRYL
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
ARUNDHATI ROY
'Tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMS
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
BIBLE
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Chris...
BIBLE
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon th...
BIBLE
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God...
BIBLE
But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness...
BIBLE
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
FREDERICK R. BARNARD
Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
JOANNA BAILLIE
Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily enta...
FRANCIS BACON
He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.
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That blessed word Mesopotamia.
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No words are necessary between two loving hearts
MARK TWAIN
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
BEN FOLDS
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; whe...
THOMAS CARLYLE
You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips canno...
GEN. JOHN BURGOYNE
Tears are words the heart can't express
JAMES EARL JONES
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words...
WILL CARLETON
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE
Fair words butter no parsnips.
JOHN CLARKE
'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER
Words were a woman's tools.
HELEN FISHER
I would rather see words out on their own, awayfrom their families and the warehouse of Rogetwanderi...
WILLIAM COLLINS
seek within the wordless whisper that babies know, before we give them words to play with , to be as...
SHAUN PARKER
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it
STORM JAMESON
Never be amused and amazed in our crazy world if the words said simple, plain, flat and straight are...
ANUJ SOMANY
A person’s words are so powerful that they often reflect the inside character to the outside peopl...
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If a person's word touches others' mind,then they may solely like him; but when it reaches their hea...
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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Though she be but little, she is fierce.
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What's done can't be undone.
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They say miracles are past.
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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Now is the winter of our discontent.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
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And all the men and women merely players;
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Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
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Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
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And t...
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If we shadows have offended,
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The appetite ...
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
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There's villainous news abroad.
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The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
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When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
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Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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Make not your thoughts you prisons.
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
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To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
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Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
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Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
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Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
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Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
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A little more than kin, and less than kind!
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
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I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
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Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
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My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
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For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
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Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
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How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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