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| We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. | | Lillian Hellman | |
| What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other | | Jane Austen | |
| When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. | | John Dryden | |
| When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise | | Bible | |
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| Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men | | Confucius | |
| Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. | | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches | | Ashleigh Brilliant | |
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| Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. | | Jonathan Swift | |
| Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. | | Charlie Chaplin | |
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| Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found | | Alexander Pope | |
| Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use | | Samuel Butler | |
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| Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. | | Samuel Butler | |
