Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous…

The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive…

— Tobias Smollett

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the…

— Catherine Lacey

All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.

— Elizabeth Siddal

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

— Anonymous

“The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.”

— Stephen King

“All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.”

— Samar Sen

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

— Dervla Murphy

Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their…

— Tecumseh

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

— Bindi Irwin

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often…

— Miriam Schapiro

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of…

— Pat Conroy

Eventhough you are not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. Whoever you see engaged in search, become her…

— Rumi

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands…

— Oscar Wilde

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing…

— Octavio Paz