Sharp Words Quotes:

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

- R.D. Blackmore

source: R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Wish, Easier, Sharp Words

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

topic: Ubiquity, Forever, Independence, Generalization, Sharp Words

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Motivational, Buddhist, Blood, Spiritual Buddhist, Drawing Blood

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Art, Ignorance, Great Photography, Landscape Photography

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

- William Brewster

topic: Heart, Godly, Goal, Sharp Words

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Country, Names, Gestures, Butchery, Sharp Words

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

- William Arthur Ward

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Voice, Hot, Dull, Shrinks, Sharp Words

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

- Chanakya

topic: Heart, Two, Unseen, Sharp Words

Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.

- Emilia Lanier

source: 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

topic: Book, Men, Hands, Sharp Words