Destructive

Famous quotes containing the word destructive:

“Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

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

“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)