513 quotes found
“No writer can be the ‘Master of the Words’ without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!”
“The words ran away with me.”
“Thomas loved words, particularly if he didn’t understand them.”
“Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.”
“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”
“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense ...”
“You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.”
“'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths out grabe.”
“Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.”
“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”
“If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.”
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.”
“Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the c...”
“Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.”
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".”
“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.”
“We must have a better word than "prefabricated" why not "ready-made"?”
“We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.”
“If a conceptual distinction is to be made the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language it cannot be made conceptually.”
“Who does not know another language does not know his own.”
