The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so…

“He’s right, you know. Kaz shouldn’t send you to do his dirty work.” “It’s all dirty work.” “But we do it just the same,”…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Ini and Aevi were entranced by his description of a curriculum that included farming, cparnetry, sewage reclamation, printing, plumbing, road mending, playwriting, and al…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

— John Wooden

Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we…

— Fred Rogers

Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter…

— Red Skelton

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm…

— Paul Krassner

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq,…

— Jay Leno

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

— Tom Cruise

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

— J. P. McEvoy

Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a…

— Thomas Sowell

Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

— Louis Tice

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

— Philip Wollen

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter…

— George Steiner

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the…

— Storm Jameson

Just another four-letter word.

— Tennessee Williams