Hard Words Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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Hard words are for fools and cowards.
— Joe Abercrombie
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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
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Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.
— Matthew Henry
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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
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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
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
— Herman Melville
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words
— Bisco Hatori
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Hard Words Break No Bones; Ignore Insults As They Cannot Physically Harm You, And Will Only Harm You Emotionally If You Let Them...
— Pacifiersucker
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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
Who Wrote These Hard Words Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Hard Words Quotes as follows: