Quotes About Poison

It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.

Lead has been a known poison since Classical times. It sickened Midgley himself and three coworkers in the winter of 1922–23, causing Midgley to spend a month in Florida recovering.

he was still belligerent, angry, stupid, always ready and even anxious to take a poke at somebody, anybody. It was as if he generated inside himself the poison which kept him continually irritated and angry and sick, like a snake that insists on biting itself.

Poison! Grover yelped. Don't let those things touch you or... Or we'll die? I guessed. Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes. Let's avoid the swords, I decided.

Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

names that were so bad that when they dared to whisper them (bitch-cunt-whore-poet) to each other beneath the bedclothes, they were like poison in the air.

The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.

People think they're being saved from a Bolshevik revolution," Frunze said. "The Nazi press has them convinced that the Communists were about to launch a campaign of murder, arson, and poison in every town and village.

Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.

Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,For 'tis of aspics' tongues!

The venom clamors of a jealous womanPoison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

Wormwood, wormwood.

O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick.

Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.

The poison of death can damage and destroy the saints.

La gente se enamora y no vomita, por eso se envenena.

Excuse me,- I said, but my voice seemed to disappear into the dark. It was my body. In this gloomy, cramped box, I had eaten poison plants and died, hidden away from prying eyes. Crouching down at the door, I wept. For my dead self.

Poison often had no taste at all, so no matter how finely honed your palate, your taste buds weren't going to save your life.

Drama Series's carcass was unceremoniously carted away, by the usual contract hauler, to the dump where dead Brisbane horses routinely go. Her cause of death remained uncertain. Had she been bitten by a snake? Had she eaten some poisonous weeds out in that scrubby, derelict meadow? Those hypotheses crumbled abruptly, thirteen days later, when her stable mates began falling ill. They went down like dominoes. This wasn't snakebite or toxic fodder. It was something contagious

What was causing this mayhem? How was it spreading from one horse to another, or anyway getting into so many of them simultaneously? One possibility was a toxic contaminant in the feed supply. Or maybe poison, maliciously introduced. Alternatively, Reid began wondering whether there might be an exotic virus at work, such as the one responsible for African horse sickness (AHS), a disease carried by biting midges in sub-Saharan Africa.

A "deadly cat and mouse game" began, the American science writer Deborah Blum has noted, as murderers deployed new poisons and scientists raced to find ways to catch them.

Plants develop poison as a protection against predation. Should I keep one out simply because it has learnt better than its brothers how to defend itself? Roses have thorns and yet no one ever thinks to ban them from a garden for being prickly.

Fear is the poison that erodes resolve. And fear is not without a killer of its own. Hope.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.