Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
Dean Koontz

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Aeschylus

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Simone de Beauvoir

Comeback is a good word, man.
Mickey Rourke

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
Stephen Fry