Word Quotes

Short lines built around the weight of a single word.

These quotes look at how one word can carry more than its dictionary entry suggests, including the idea that tolerance sometimes functions as a disguised form of indifference. Others note that everyday terms, like entrepreneur, arrived in English as borrowed language. For a lighter take on wordplay, see our Riddles page.

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Steven Wright

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Quotes by Sri Chinmoy

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Music is love in search of a word.

Quotes by Sidney Lanier

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Quotes by Shannon Hoon

I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.

Quotes by Santiago Calatrava

'Commitment' is a marvelous word.

Quotes by Ruby Dee

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

Quotes by Ron Fournier

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Quotes by Robyn Hitchcock

I've always kept my word, and my clients have always kept their word.

Quotes by Robert Shapiro

'Hug' is my mother's word for affection.

Quotes by Robert Indiana

I hate the word 'hippy.'

Quotes by Robert Carlyle

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Quotes by Robert Burton

'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.

Quotes by Richard Quest

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

Quotes by Richard Harris

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

Quotes by Rei Kawakubo

A word to the wise is enough.

Quotes by Plautus

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

Quotes by Philip Henry

I always substitute the word 'feedback' for 'failure.'

Quotes by Peter Jones

Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.

Quotes by Peter Handke

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A few lines here argue that speech means little unless it lines up with what a person actually does. Browse related themes in our Bad quotes or the God collection.