Dangerous Quote by Dennis L. McKiernan

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

— Barbara Tuchman

“When my sons told me about what they'd found, I went to the priests of Belar and had them examine the auguries. This is…

— David Eddings

How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M…

— Anonymous

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

— William Shakespeare

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

— Steven Millhauser

Words are dangerous things.

— Corra May Harris

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable,…

— Philip Kaufman

L-O-V-E one word, four letters, and can hurt you in one saying.

— Anonymous

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some…

— D. H. Lawrence

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

— May Sarton

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

— Sarah Silverman

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

— Howard Hodgkin