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Fine Words Quotes

1.
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere

Authors on Fine Words Quotes: Joseph Joubert Moliere Jonathan Swift William Makepeace Thackeray Laozi George Eliot George Herbert Confucius Jonathan Sacks Walter Scott
2.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius

3.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Joseph Joubert

4.
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Laozi

5.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Jonathan Swift

6.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
Moliere

7.
Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
William Makepeace Thackeray

8.
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
George Herbert

9.
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
Walter Scott

10.
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
Jonathan Sacks

11.
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Joseph Joubert

12.
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
George Eliot