Hard Words Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Hard words are for fools and cowards. — Joe Abercrombie
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them. — Matthew Henry
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them… — Anne Frank
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. — Herman Melville
Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend… — Paulo Coelho
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are… — Samuel Johnson
I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard… — Charles Bukowski
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most… — Elwyn Brooks White
Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids… — Maurice Sendak
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton
Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words — Bisco Hatori
Hard Words Break No Bones; Ignore Insults As They Cannot Physically Harm You, And Will Only Harm You Emotionally If You Let Them... — Pacifiersucker
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak… — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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16 authors contributed a total of 18 Hard Words Quotes as follows: