Poison Quotes

875 Poison quotes by 609 unique authors

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. — Mark Frost
What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders.… — John Bevere
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment… — Sam Vaknin
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. — Marian Wright Edelman
Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you. — Rumi
Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange… — Diana Vreeland
Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward. — Rodney Mullen
If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee, — Nancy Astor
The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both.… — Swami Satchidananda
Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both… — Claire Cook
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts… — George Mason
Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is… — B. C. Forbes
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage. — Paracelsus
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly… — Unknown Author
Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;… — Samuel Johnson
"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should… — Don Kates
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and… — Samuel Adams
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate… — William Godwin
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects… — Eliphas Levi
The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing. — Yasmin Mogahed
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison. — Truman Capote
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds… — Maxwell Maltz
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends… — Samuel Johnson

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