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Quotes about Word


It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke StJohn

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Samuel Madden

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence.

Alexander Pope

"Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke,"
Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.

Alexander Pope

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Alexander Pope

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold,
Alike fantastic if too new or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

Some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
These equal syllables alone require,
Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;
While expletives their feeble aid to join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

Alexander Pope

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labours, and the words move slow:
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Alexander Pope

At every word a reputation dies.

Alexander Pope

Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.

Alexander Pope

Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words,
So known, so honour'd at the House of Lords.

Alexander Pope

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires.
Nor public flame nor private dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire Chaos is restor'd,
Light dies before thy uncreating word;
Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall,
And universal darkness buries all.

Alexander Pope

Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.

Alexander Pope

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.

Alexander Pope

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

Alexander Pope

Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.

Alexander Pope

Thus adorned, the two heroes, 'twixt shoulder and elbow,
Shook hands and went to 't; and the word it was bilbow.

John Byrom

I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Samuel Johnson

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Samuel Johnson

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

Laurence Sterne

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er,
Scatters from her pictured urn
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Thomas Gray

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill,
For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;
And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew.

Oliver Goldsmith

Good people all, with one accord,
Lament for Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word
From those who spoke her praise.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,--glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy.... Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,--in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.

Edmund Burke

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