If Words Can Kill Quotes

#1. He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.

Jim Butcher

#2. With words ... one can cut & kill:but also one can cure and heal.

Darrius Garrett

#3. Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.

Gene Wolfe

#4. She believes in the words of her fortune teller, but really, anyone could have told her that if you have to stop doing the thing you love, it will kill you.

Helen Humphreys

#5. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

Will Carleton

#6. The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Aberjhani

#7. Try not to kill me with your love,
try not to break a glass wall
seeing everything,
but going unheard,
the words feel unspoken.

Crystals gleaming at our feet,
innocently joined by red fists
and a kiss.

Megan Hutchinson

#8. What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.

Henri Charriere

#9. When they went in for the kill, it was usually with words. Because mean girls don't kill. They dehumanize.

R.K. Lilley

#10. Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Czeslaw Milosz

#11. Many an ancient lord's last words had been, You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future

Tahereh Mafi

#13. Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.

Chuck Wendig

#14. To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.

M.H. Rakib

#15. You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.

Haim Harari

#17. It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Elie Wiesel

#19. This is my story.
Death tried to kill it;
Grief tried to drown it;
Pride tried to erase it;
Pain tried to hide it;
but
Deep saved it.
My story grew words while waiting in Deep and now my words have wings to fly. Lottie Johnson, age 96

Sandi Morgan Denkers

#20. To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.

Patrick White

#21. Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

Bernie Siegel

#22. Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.

Tahereh Mafi

#23. Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last
poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me
only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.

Mahmoud Darwish

#24. Ah, kill me with your weapon, not with words.

William Shakespeare

#25. Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit-you choose.

Eugene H. Peterson

#26. you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again...
~Ichigo Kurosaki

Tite Kubo

#27. Stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

Stephen King

#28. Words don't kill; humans do.

Mai Ghoussoub

#29. His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Franz Kafka

#30. Kill him." Dr. Kissing repeated my words in a flat, matter-of-fact voice. "Just so. But 'kill,' as you will have observed, like 'spy' and 'stop,' is really just one more of those short but exceedingly troublesome words.

Alan Bradley