One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Tenía una manera de hablar que más bien le servía para ocultar que para decir.

Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

Language disguises thought.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

the desire to say words overcame him and he said words without meaning, rolling them over on his tongue and saying them because they were brave words, full of meaning. 'death,' he muttered, 'night, the sea, fear, loveliness.

For he could coin, or counterfeit New words, with little or no wit; Words so debas'd and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them on; And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em; The ignorant for current took 'em;

Words are futile devices.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.