Quotes
Quotes about Word
And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense:
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope.
I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand an end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
Pol. What do you read, my lord?
Ham. Words, words, words.
Unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab.
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
A rhapsody of words.
Bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word; which madness
Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.
I 'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
Child Rowland to the dark tower came,
His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.
Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
No, 't is slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
All corners of the world.
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.
That in the captain's but a choleric word
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
I never tempted her with word too large,
But, as a brother to his sister, show'd
Bashful sincerity and comely love.
Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Delivers in such apt and gracious words
That aged ears play truant at his tales,
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.
If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That ever blotted paper!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
