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Quotes About Poison

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
~ George Gurdjieff
This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
~ Lionel Blue
Steve and Barr also launched poison squads, as they were known on the inside. This was a disinformation brigade—clucks and gossips, but the best-known clucks and gossips in every community, so that false stories could be plausibly true.
~ Timothy Egan
We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime, stirring poison into our cups of whiskey-spiked chamomile tea, wearing party hats. Then, nervous about our double homicide, we could lie in bed together, holding hands again, frightened and waiting, still wondering, after all these years, if we even believed in our own souls.
~ Timothy Schaffert
I think you two forgot how to love each other, and that's just like poison. Worst thing you can do is forgot how to love someone.
~ Tod Goldberg
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
~ Oscar Wilde
Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia
~ Oscar Wilde
He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
She descended, not through the nearest hole as was her childhood habit, but more sedately down a marble staircase that began life in the upper world as an innocent stairway from a cellar door. Below, Faey complained about her tardiness, but was too busy to press for explanations. A gentleman from the palace had sent a request, with gold, for a method of detecting poison. Mag sighed. It would be a smelly afternoon.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." —Hans Selye "Worry is the stomach's worst poison." —Alfred
~ Dale Carnegie
She would follow him there. And she would die there -- and die soon. Of misery and of strangeness and of all the vicious, petty, alien, and unbridled thoughts that would pour into her like the poison from the Goldner tins poured into Fitzjames -- unseen, vile, deadly.
~ Dan Simmons
într-atâta este de adev?rat c? lipsa uneia singure dintre pl?cerile vieÈ›ii poate uneori otr?vi toate celelalte desf?t?ri.
~ Daniel Defoe
beneficial impact on our health, while toxic ones can act like slow poison in our bodies.
~ Daniel Goleman
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!
~ Quentin Tarantino
Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
~ Mitch Albom
I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.
~ Gordon Parks
We have now decided that the poisoned cup is most likely in front of you. But the poison is powder made from iocane and iocane comes only from Australia and Australia, as everyone knows, is peopled with criminals and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as I don't trust you, which means I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
~ William Goldman
I am turmeric who rose out of the ocean of milk when the devas and asuras churned for the treasures of the universe. I am turmeric who came after the nectar and before the poison and thus lie in between.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
How entangled love is with expectation, that poison vine! The stronger the expectation, the more our anger towards the beloved if he doesn't fulfil it—and the less our control over ourselves.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
sweat dared to appear under the arms of Gigi Boudakian where sweat should never ever be, creeping down her sides like poison ivy staining a lovely satin garden wall. We
~ Chris Lynch
Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.
~ Helen Garner
I want to walk in the desert tonight. I want the wind to pass over me. I want to let the poison bleed through the soles of my feet into the desert floor. I want to starve the monster. I want to punish it with thoughts of clean night wind. The
~ Henry Rollins
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.
~ Leo Tolstoy