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Quotes About Poison

On one occasion, in the middle of an intimate talk, Mao leaned over and whispered in the Dalai Lama's ear, "I understand you very well, but of course religion is poison.
~ John Avedon
Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
~ John Calvin
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War 1. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry, which requires more than 10 bits of information to understand. Carl Sagan
~ John Carey
I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.
~ John Connolly
After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.
~ John Connolly
I have shown you how Machiavelli supplied the immoral theory needful for the consummation of royal absolutism; the absolute oligarchy of Venice required the same assurance against the revolt of conscience. It was provided by a writer as able as Machiavelli, who analyzed the wants and resources of aristocracy, and made known that its best security is poison.
~ John Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree,Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,If lecherous goats, if serpents enviousCannot be damn'd; alas; why should I be?
~ John Donne
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.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.
~ Newell Dwight Hillis
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
~ Charlotte Bronte
As pollution is poison for the climate of the blue planet; similarly, jealousy, greed, and egoism are poison for the climate of thoughts beauty.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Each one of us breathes with the jealousy. However, it depends on that one prevents the jealousy or jealousy poisons one.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Hatred, revenge, jealousy, and anger, carry and show negativity; consequently, such negativity sprays poison upon the journey of a career and success of life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The differences have poison within it, which bites, and signs its sign. Conversely, antipathy echoes and claps, as thunders that rain or no rain; however, in both ways that blow over.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Unjust, whether policies, actions or conduct, poison the peace and cause the way of terror and violence.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Veto mostly explicates and elucidates only the rift, for its authority and interests, not unity, collaboration, and support for the peace. It bluntly sprays poison to justice, equality, and stability, flaming all the laws and rules.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
as poison that reaches the blood spreads through the body, so does the love of gossip spread through the soul of woman.
~ Eileen Goudge
Maimonides likewise recommended immediate vomiting after consuming suspect food and praised rooster dung as one of the most effective means to bring this about. "It is said that excrements of roosters have a specific property to eliminate every poison by vomiting," he proclaimed.
~ Eleanor Herman
In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320
~ Eleanor Herman
Some sentences release their poison only after years.
~ Elias Canetti
A person's education devoid of wisdom is a poison for the entire generation
~ Anuj Somany
A woman is so selfish that in order to fulfill her wish of personal profit only or safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she may even poison the minds of her children against her own man or anyone as close one.
~ Anuj Somany
A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she may even poison with words the minds of her children against her own man or anyone as close one.
~ Anuj Somany