Verbal Combat Quotes

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

My words are my bullets.

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

As far as talking, I'm a pretty competitive dude.

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

The whole world knows, that, when a wrong stings a man, making him fierce and loud, his direct expressions have often small value; but that his parenthetical expressions often have great value. This is one of the simplest principles in homely every-day-criticism, serving truth-seekers, wherever wordy war rages, whether among statesmen or hackmen.

Some syllables are swords.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.

If you actually understand and listen to what he's saying, there's no one that can compete with Eminem. That's why no one goes at Eminem because everybody knows Eminem is just, he's too good in a rap battle.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.

A political war is one in which people shoot from the lip.