Variant: She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Source: I Am the Messenger
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster
Misquoted in Forbes (6 October 1986), actually attributed to humorist Professor Irwin Corey (1953) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/ <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Matthijs Maris (1839–1917) Dutch painter
Quote of Matthijs Maris, as cited by David Croal Thomson (1907), in: The Brothers Maris (James – Matthew – William), ed. Charles Holme; text: D.C. Thomson https://ia800204.us.archive.org/1/items/cu31924016812756/cu31924016812756.pdf; publishers, Offices of 'The Studio', London - Paris, 1907, p. BMxiii <br class="br">In 1870 Matthijs Maris was enrolled in the Municipal Guard of Paris, but avoided there any kind of fight.
Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
"United"
Song lyrics, Other songs
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Trump TV / 'The Apprentice' takes realistic inside look at corporate world
San Francisco Chronicle
2004-03-28
David
Armstrong
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Trump-TV-The-Apprentice-takes-realistic-2802491.php
2000s
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”
Martin Amis book Einstein's Monsters
"Introduction: Thinkability"
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint
Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969), Ch. 4: "The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life"
“Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
Dan Simmons book Hyperion
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 192)
