Word Effect Quotes

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

The speaker does not own the words he utters, or control their effect.

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.