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173 Poisoned quotes by 143 unique authors

But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of… — C.S. Lewis
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see… — Fernando Pessoa
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding,… — Charlotte Bronte
The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no… — Neal Shusterman
And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil. — Hunter S. Thompson
I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as… — Catherynne M. Valente
The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic.… — Gary Snyder
Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days,… — Elizabeth Gaskell
No. I took this job in self-defense. Quain burns everything. Belen thinks jerky is all we need to survive. Flea's idea of a good meal… — Maria V. Snyder
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with… — Charlie Chaplin
The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole… — Jim Butcher
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes. — Cassandra Clare
Would you care for something to drink?” “Is it poisoned?” “It’s Saturday,” I said. “We only serve poison during the week. — Ilona Andrews
Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned. — Ilona Andrews
Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came… — Cassandra Clare
There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like… — Cassandra Clare
Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade… — Mira Grant
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated. — Barry Humphries
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned… — Lucretia Mott
However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of… — Lara St. John
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. — William Rose Benet
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British… — Michael Baden
I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned. — David Edwards
My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned… — Mary Manin Morrissey
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you… — Octave Mirbeau

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