Destructive

Famous quotes containing the word destructive:

“[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honoured by the name of “speculation”; but which ought to be called Gambling.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)

“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)