Abstract Quote by Ernest Hemingway

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the…

— Ernest Hemingway

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as…

— Ernest Hemingway

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil.…

— Jodi Picoult

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them,…

— Leigh Hunt

“Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns to be…

— Ronald Carter

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable,…

— Philip Kaufman

“Our speech accurately reflects the prejudices of the ruling group. Since the rulers and the rich and the educated (who directed language) generally lived…

— Sydney J. Harris

Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid…

— Walter Savage Landor

“As well as the [League of Nations] delegates themselves and their suites, there were innumerable campaigners of one sort and another, male and female,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“The organization of each Folk, as such, sprang in all likelihood mainly from war, from a common greed of conquest, a common need of…

— John Richard Green

“Words, words, words taken out of place and mutilated, words from other men — those were the alms left him by the hours and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Terry Allen and a larger portion of his 1st Division descended on Oran from the sandstone hills above St. Cloud, a key crossroads east…

— Rick Atkinson