False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
By evil report and by good report.
The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Evil tongues never want a whet.
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.
