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Quotes About Poison

the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open..
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If he was poisoned sometime before the tasting, it could have happened to take effect after he ate the soup. Do you know where he was before he came home?" "When we looked in his day planner, I didn't look at today's schedule." Kate shook her head. "I focused on what he did the week of the wedding.
~ Laura Durham
The fatal poison of irresponsible power.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
May I borrow a cup of cyanide?
~ Charles Addams
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias — because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love — we must be stingy with it.
~ Charles Baudelaire
We become fondly attached to objects and pursuits, frequently for no conceivable reason but the pain and trouble they cost us. In proportion to the danger in which they involve us do we cherish them. Our darling potion is the poison that scorches our vitals.
~ Charles Brockden Brown
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
~ Charles Dickens
In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils. Having prepared his mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever.
~ Charles Dickens
Lessons from jealousy and anger: sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned.
~ Terri Guillemets
There is more poison in aphorisms than in painted candy; but it is of a less seductive kind.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Ci sforziamo di conservarci in salute per poter morir bene di radiazioni o di aria avvelenata.
~ Guido Ceronetti
And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.
~ James Patterson
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
~ Joe Paterno
When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done
~ Kin Hubbard
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Girls with poison necklacesto save themselves from torture.Just as women wear amuletswhich hold their rolled up fortunestranscribed on ola leaf.
~ Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
~ Bill Maris
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
~ Thomas Paine
eating with ignorance turns nourishment into poison and kills us.
~ Thubten Yeshe
They were able to deduce from his reports that the sharbat was poisonous to Turks but not to Kurds; however, because of the official state position that Kurds and Turks are indistinguishable, they kept this conclusion to themselves.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.
~ Orson Scott Card
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
~ Oscar Wilde