Verbal Defense Quotes

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

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.

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

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.

What you say in defense of … ideas matters, and what people hear matters even more.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

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.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

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

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?