Well Said Quotes

• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺ ʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.

  Richelle Mead

  Wall, Opening Up, Stuff

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

  Charles Mackay

  Men, Thinking, Mad

  Charles Mackay (1841). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions”, p.3

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• It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

  Francis Bacon

  Holiday, Envy, Wells

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiring, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

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• I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Goal, Strive

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• It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Religion, Facts

  1841 On Heroes, Hero- Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Divinity' (published 1897).

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• It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Men, Doctors

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1746, Princeton University Press

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• Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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• Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

  E. B. White

  Sight, Abomination, Wells

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.188, Cornell University Press

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• It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

  Agnes Repplier

  Spring, Civilization, Luxury

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• "Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Mother, Father

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.87

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• Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stubborn, Ransom, Delusion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. "Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fall, Sky, Pieces

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.101, Penguin

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• 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Complaining, Red

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• Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.

  Jim Rohn

  Truth, Ignorance, Night

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• And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Eye, Men

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• Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

  Jonathan Swift

  Conceited, Wells, Ifs

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 2

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• How many times have I told you, Magnus? Behave professionaly in a professional setting. Which means no being rude to Nephilim, and also no getting attached to Nephilim." "I never get attached to Nephilim!" Magnus protested. Ragnor coughed, and in the midst of the cough said something that sounded like "blerondale." "Well," said Magnus. "Hardly ever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Rude, Nephilim

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• 'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.'And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

  Shel Silverstein

  Book, Tired, Boys

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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• It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Birth Place, Evil

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• Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Humor, Monkeys, Higher

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

  Saint Augustine

  Self, Two, Soul

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.53, 1st World Publishing

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