Quotes About Poison

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

And then he burned down the opera house," Miranda whispered. "He burned down the Rose." Ashley's gaze misted over. "Both Roses. He destroyed both Roses." For a long moment, they all seemed lost in their own thoughts. Then Parker spoke up. "Yeah." Tilting his chair back, he winked at Gage and Etienne. "That's the way to a girl's heart, all right. Give her poison, then burn down her house.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

The suddenness of his death suggests that the arrow carried a poisoned tip.

The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battle field in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home. I try to ignore death, but she's got her arm around my waist waiting to poison everything I touch.

Everybody carried a little evil in them, Momma once told me. Madam Lockton had more than her share. The poison had eaten holes through her soul and made room for vermin to nest inside her.

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring, and convulsive, something that tears and distracts the breast, and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passions of gratitude and love.

For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.

Sometimes you have to be satisfied just to know that cobra venom is deadly. It's not always efficacious to study the snake face to face. You have to balance what you might learn against the known chance of getting bit.

Unicorns are man-eating monsters. They don't have wings, they aren't lavender or sparkly, and you could never catch one to ride without its goring you through the sternum. And even if it somehow managed to miss your major arteries-and it never misses-you'd still die from the deadly poison in its horn.

Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.

Pensò di essere nel mondo dell'aldilà, apparentemente identico al nostro, solo che le belle cose si avverano secondo i giusti desideri e dopo essere stati soddisfatti si rimane con l'animo in pace, non come quaggiù dove c'è sempre qualche cose che avvelena anche le giornate migliori.

Pensò di essere nel mondo dell'aldilà, apparentemente identico al nostro, solo che le belle cose si avverano secondo i giusti desideri e dopo essere stati soddisfatti si rimane con l'animo in pace, non come quaggiù dove c'è sempre qualche cosa che avvelena anche le giornate migliori.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

Hate poisons your life.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

If I could get hold of something nasty and drop it in the coffee urn, I could poison them all." "Too bad your personality's not water-soluble.

Human beings are a much worse poison than schnapps or tobacco.

Žmon?s daug piktesni nuodai nei degtin? ir tabakas.

Love, you poison my typewriter. How can I write with every key screaming? Since you've left, I've had hangovers they could name battleships after.