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Quotes About Poison

I blame my mother. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
~ Gillian Flynn
It requires discipline, to drown oneself, but I have discipline in spades. My body may never be discovered, or it may resurface weeks, months, later--eroded to the point that my death can't be time-stamped--and I will provide a last bit of evidence to make sure Nick is marched to the padded cross, the prison table where he'll be pumped with poison and die.
~ Gillian Flynn
Uma criança criada com veneno considera dor um consolo.
~ Gillian Flynn
Yes, you need your evidence. I hope I have enough poison left in me.
~ Gillian Flynn
Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?" "I don't know. The falling sickness?" "Give him some of his own soup," somebody suggested. "Serve him right." A tin cup appeared. We forced its contents down his throat. His eye clicked open. "What are you trying to do? Poison me? Feh! What was that? Boiled sewage?" "Your soup," I told him.
~ Glen Cook
What did Romeo and Juliet do?" They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison-
~ Gordon Korman
weaving his verbal wreaths, in prose and verse, of marvellous poison ivy.
~ Gore Vidal
Mississippi blood is different. It's got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there's strength in it, too. Strength that's been beat but not broke.
~ Greg Iles
One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
~ Kim Jong Il
Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
~ Alfred Nobel
A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change.
~ Sergei Dovlatov
Despite her mother, Raven had always been a nice girl. Yes, she would grow up to poison and rampage and try to destroy all happiness, but that was no reason not to be civil.
~ Shannon Hale
I'm having a cheeseburger," Anna said. "With fries smothered in vinegar and salt." "I told you I wouldn't kiss you again. You don't have to poison your mouth." "Very funny. What are you having?" "Something with onions and garlic.
~ Shannon Stacey
From a character's mother in THE ROMANCE READER'S GUIDE TO LIFE: "Resentment is the poison you drink yourself hoping it will kill the other fellow.
~ Sharon Pywell
A dream has power to poison sleep
~ Shelley
Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.
~ Joan Collins
How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin.
~ Mary McCarthy
There was no laudanum and Liddy made a terrible fuss when I proposed carbolic acid, just because I had put too much on the cotton once and burned her mouth.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.
~ Mary Shelley
Je souhaite ardemment que l'accomplissement de vos désirs ne devienne pas pour vous, comme ce, le fut pour moi, un poison venimeux.
~ Mary Shelley
The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.    We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley