“Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.”
"Break, Break, Break" (1842), st. 1
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The Indian Serenade (1819), st. 3
“as my mother told me sticks and stones may break my bones but words don’t hurt me.”
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“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”
Variant: But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Source: Hamlet
“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”
“Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me”
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“Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!”
"Reason Enough", line 18; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew