Best Poisonous Quotations
150 Poisonous quotes by 132 unique authors
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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous…
— Khaled Hosseini
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For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and…
— Jasper Fforde
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The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived,…
— Janet Fitch
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The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom…
— Bill Bryson
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of…
— Janet Fitch
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
— Dorothy Parker
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Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place…
— Oscar Wilde
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I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my…
— Ray Bradbury
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Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming…
— Cassandra Clare
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The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask…
— Chris Bohjalian
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
— Tim Ferriss
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I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a…
— Cassandra Clare
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go…
— Ekaterina Sedia
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It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up…
— Irvine Welsh
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Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin…
— Jim Butcher
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Nice creepy reptile,” Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. “Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.
— Rick Riordan
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
— Holly Black
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