Quotes About Poison

Why would I want to poison you? Then I have no job and I have only just found out that I want to live.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool.

Regret poisons your thoughts.Doubt poisons your dreams.Fear poisons your hopes.Insincerity poisons your deeds.

Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.

An angry man is full of poison.

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

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

What do you do if you get nailed by this poison?" The bushmen smiled broadly. "We die," they said.

Dem Sokrates gaben sie ein Gift zu trinken, und unseren Herrn Christus schlugen sie an das Kreuz! Das geht in den letzten Zeiten nicht mehr so leicht; aber - einen Gewaltsmenschen oder einen bösen stiernackigen Pfaffen zum Heiligen oder einen tüchtigen Kerl, nur weil er uns um Kopfeslänge überwachsen war, zum Spuk und Nachtgespenst zu machen - das geht noch alle Tage.

Fie on these dealers in poison, say I: can they not keep to the old honest way of cutting throats, without introducing such abominable innovations from Italy?

These things are going to eat away at me... I rewrite the script in my head until it's 100-proof poison, and none of it helps at all.

Out of your poisons you brewed your balsam. You milked your cow, melancholy; now you drink the sweet milk of her udder.

We got distracted. Ty said I could come to the tasting. Maddy— Please. He's going to put my wine in. David glanced over. You're a brave man, MacMillan. You never spent an evening chugging any Run, Walk and Fall Down? With a grin, David covered Maddy's ears. Once or twice, and fortunately I lived to regret it. Your wine club might object to the addition. Yeah. The thought of that tickled Ty, too. It'll broaden their outlook. Or poison them. Please, Dad. It's for science.

Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.

Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone, Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.

She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.

opium, belladonna, and white hellabore.

She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.

she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison. No wonder they gave them out free to the soliders. Lucky Strikes.

Worte können sein wie winzige Arsendosen: sie werden unbemerkt verschluckt, sie scheinen keine Wirkung zu tun, und nach einiger Zeit ist die Giftwirkung doch da.

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

el veneno estaba en la herida y la herida permaneció siempre abierta

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open, and soon I found myself maturing amid a civilization which allows a man of twenty-five to court a girl of sixteen but not a girl of twelve.