“Deeds, not words.”
The Lover's Progress (licensed 6 December 1623; revised 1634; published 1647), Act iii. Sc. 4. Compare: "Deeds, not words", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i, canto i, line 867.
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English Jacobean playwright 1579–1625Related quotes
Worte sind Taten.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
“It's deeds we need, not words.”
To Lyuben Karavelov, January 27, 1872
Original: (bg) Дела трябват, а не думи.
“Words are women, deeds are men.”
"In the Name of the Bodleian"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.”
As quoted in Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 1 (2009) by Iam A. Freeman
“837. Words are women, deedes are men.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Justice is a constant uprightness in words and in deeds.”
Four Discoveries of Praise to God, eds. C. Matthew McMahon and Therese B. McMahon (Puritan Publications, 2012), Ch. 2, p. 28
