Famous quotes containing the word words:
“The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called ‘vague.’”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)
“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)