Destructive Speech Quotes

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.