“Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.”
Jewish Proverb
“In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves”
William Shakespeare
“Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.”
John Donne
“In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.”
Bible
“A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue”
“Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”
“As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.”
