Poison Quotes

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. (Lucretius)
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. View quote
Colette
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Expect poison from the standing water. View quote
William Blake
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. View quote
Carrie Fisher
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. View quote
Emil Cioran
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. View quote
Adam Smith
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. View quote
George Mikes
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. (Liu Xiaobo)
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. View quote
Henry Miller
I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope. View quote
Scott Lynch
Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison. View quote
Bob Dylan
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. View quote
William Blake
Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. View quote
Steven Erikson
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? View quote
William Shakespeare
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. View quote
William Empson
It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. (Saskya Pandita)
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. View quote
Carson McCullers
I think that testosterone is a rare poison. View quote
Germaine Greer
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure-its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk. View quote
Umberto Eco
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