top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
Standard
Customized
More
"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
Love
"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
Marriage
"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
Ethics
"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
People
"Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice."
Morality
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
Love
"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."
Life
"For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
Philosophy
bottom of page