Eating words has never given me indigestion.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

We are masters of the unsaid words but slaves of those we let slip out.

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

The greatest tie of all is language.... Words are the only things that last for ever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of Time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds.