Fine Words Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
— Confucius
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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with…
— Gautama Buddha
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Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.
— Paulo Coelho
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
— Laozi
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can…
— Laozi
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
— Moliere
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
— Walter Scott
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If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
— Moliere
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of…
— Jonathan Sacks
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I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
— George Eliot
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
— Jonathan Swift
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The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was…
— Martin Jacques
Who Wrote These Fine Words Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Fine Words Quotes as follows: