Fine Words Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. — Confucius
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
Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering. — Paulo Coelho
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
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? — Laozi
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
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
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive. — Moliere
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips. — Walter Scott
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
I live on good soup, not on fine words. — Moliere
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
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. — George Eliot
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. — Jonathan Swift
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

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