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Quotes About Poison

true apothecary thy drugs art quick
~ William Shakespeare
Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words
~ William Shakespeare
whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die.
~ William Shakespeare
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
~ William Shakespeare
what ho, apothecary!
~ William Shakespeare
O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die
~ William Shakespeare
Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, what a world is this when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!
~ William Shakespeare
One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.
~ William Shakespeare
Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.
~ William Shakespeare
Aquí está el oro, peor veneno para el alma; en este mundo asesina mucho más que las tristes mezclas que no puedes vender. Soy yo quien te vende veneno, no tú a mí.
~ William Shakespeare
Bah! querido, un fuego sofoca a otro fuego, un dolor se aminora por la angustia de otro dolor: hazte mudable y busca remedio en la contraria mudanza; cura una desesperación con otra desesperación, haz que absorban tus ojos un nuevo veneno y el antiguo perderá su ponzoñosa acritud.
~ William Shakespeare
Eres un pesimista, ves siempre el vaso medio vacio! -No, lo veo medio lleno pero de veneno.
~ Woody Allen
Qué lástima que mis mejores sentimientos me hagan vomitar. La gente se enamora y no vomita, por eso se envenena.
~ Xavier Velasco
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Do you think I'm stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system." Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
But even a thornbush grows a flower sometimes. And sometimes the loveliest flower has poison at its heart.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Few of us know how saturated our minds and bodies are with light. Even fewer realize how profoundly modern media poisons the soul.
~ Unknown
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
~ Clive Lewis
The few cures we have recorded could be multiplied many times over, many of them experienced by people who had failed to find relief through conventional medical treatment. If a story from Scotland is to be believed, the success of one holy well, St. Drostan's at Newdosk (Angus), was so distasteful to the local doctors that they decided to poison the well. When the people heard of their intention, they banded together to attack and kill the doctors!
~ Unknown
It was now or never. When he was sure that she was engrossed in her work, he quickly took the small bottle of poison from his pocket and poured it into his water flask, making sure that his back was to Morgana. He had to concentrate to stop his hands from shaking; the enormity of what he was doing made him tremble.
~ Unknown
Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
Villains were wonderful. They got to be cruel and selfish, to preen in front of mirrors and poison apples, and trap girls on mountains of glass. They indulged all their worst impulses, revenged themselves for the least offense, and took every last thing they wanted. And sure, they wound up in barrels studded with nails, or dancing in iron shoes heated by fire, not just dead, but disgraced and screaming. But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.
~ Holly Black