Words

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

—Sarah Bernhardt

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

—Henry Fielding

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

—Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

—Samuel Butler

Our words are buttressed by our deeds, and our deeds are inspired by our convictions.

—Theodore Hesburgh

I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken.

—Tammara Webber in Where You Are

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

—Mark Twain

I'm not used to being at a loss for words.

—Bree Despain in The Shadow Prince

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

—Rudyard Kipling

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

—Edward Hopper

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

—Wallace Stevens

In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

—Sara Murray Jordan

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

—Peter Ustinov

The temple of art is built in words.

—Josiah Gilbert Holland