Idle Words Quotes

People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.

Words are the money of fools.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And again: "A lying mouth deals death to the soul." And likewise the Lord says in the Gospel: "On the day of judgment men shall render account for every idle word they utter."

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Even parrots talk. I don't care about what they say.

We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.