In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.
What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
There are words which cut like steel.
Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.
It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
What's wrong is wrong, and that's absolutely acceptable, and I understand that people get hurt by things that people say that are hurtful, and we should be able to say that when someone says something that hurts us, that it hurts us.
If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.
You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you." - Duncan to Madelyne.
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
