Best Poisonous Words
150 Poisonous quotes by 132 unique authors
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Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years…
— Philip Pullman
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Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our…
— Daniel Handler
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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is…
— David Mitchell
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Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents.…
— Rick Riordan
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Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.…
— Nora Roberts
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Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!
— Rick Riordan
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The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta…
— Suzanne Collins
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What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
— C.S. Lewis
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When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they…
— Eiichiro Oda
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I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.
— Sylvia Plath
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Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very…
— Anton Chekhov
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But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate…
— Laini Taylor
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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine…
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and…
— A B Simpson
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has…
— Gary Zukav
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Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through…
— Tina Brown
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Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive…
— Richard Harris
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Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a…
— L Estrange
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes lying and keeping secrets may appear to be the best way to keep your loved one, but the truth is, they can only work…
— Shalom
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The age old inadequacy and poisonous shortcoming which is defended by most people, most fiercely is ego.
— Melchor Lim
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Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you…
— C. JoyBell C.
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Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality
— Unkown
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All the unspoken truths become poisonous
— Miroslav Mircevski Spasov
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