Top 12 Fine Words Quotes

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Moliere

Food, Fine Words, Literature

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Confucius

Chinese, Fine Words, Vices

James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117

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

Laozi

People, Taoism, Fine Words

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

Joseph Joubert

Writing, Glasses, Fine Words

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Jonathan Swift

Sarcastic, Fine Words, Wonder

'Whitshed's Motto on his Coach' (1724) (Libertas... Freedom and the land of my birth)

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

Moliere

Fine Words, Alive, Good Food

'Les femmes savantes' (1672) act 2, sc. 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

Fine Words, Half, Sauce

William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.148

Fine words dresse ill deedes.

George Herbert

Fine Words, Fine, Ill

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.307

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

Walter Scott

Southern, Fine Words, Parsnips

Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe”, p.229

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

Goal, Fine Words, Development

"Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.