Poison Quotes
875 quotes by 648 authors
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison…
— Johann Arndt
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
— Henry Adams
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what…
— Annie Besant
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
— Ambrose Bierce
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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own…
— Aeschylus
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
— Aeschylus
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as…
— Johannes Brahms
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If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
— Geezer Butler
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There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked…
— Chanakya
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
— Winston Churchill
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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…
— Jean Cocteau
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
— Jean Anouilh
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison…
— Kelly Miller
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Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was…
— Art Buchwald
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Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy…
— Adolf Hitler
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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
— Friedrich Schiller
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