Poison Quotes

875 Poison quotes by 609 unique authors

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. — Nancy Astor
Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives.… — Judith Orloff
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. — Nelson Mandela
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding… — George Bernard Shaw
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin,… — Saint Augustine
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. — John Quincy Adams
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where… — Tryon Edwards
That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison. — Steve Nash
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest… — Terry Pratchett
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. — William Shakespeare
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. — Mark Twain
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. — Vladimir Lenin
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet. — Adelaide Anne Procter
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. — Euripides
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you! — Winston Churchill
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. — Seneca the Elder
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. — Albert Einstein
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that… — Isaac Asimov
When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that… — Sinclair B. Ferguson

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