Hard Words Quotes
Hard Words Quote of the day
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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 words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.
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 words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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 in her heart.
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 written which cannot be understood.
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.