Hurtful Words Quotes

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

My threshold for mean gossip is nearly intolerable.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

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.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.

It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way.

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.