Dark humor Quote by Alan Bradley

“Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man.”

— H.G. Wells

“Your lips are the only stimulant I need.”

— Faith Sullivan

“[...] Says it with his head on!" Mr. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been infinitely less remarkable if he…

— Charles Dickens

“All the while I rattled off a long list of curses in the soundproofed room of my mind.”

— Lia Habel

“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.”

— Graham Greene

“thoughts as drugs.”

— Susan Stiffelman

“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying.…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“A wise person would make certain their words aren't so sharp.”

— Jonas Lee

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

“Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.”

— Angela Carter

“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I am merely biding my time. (Stryder) For what? (Rowena) For the moment when I am out of this cell and am able to…

— Kinley MacGregor