Destructive

Famous quotes containing the word destructive:

    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)

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

    The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
    Basil Bunting (1900–1985)