Poison Quotes

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

An angry person is always full of poison.

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.

Drink poison rather than worry.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you're a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.