“Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...”
“Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck”
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.”
“Words are too poor and too scant to express the inmost feeling in the heart of man.”
“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”