Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in

Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.