Century Quote by Honore de Balzac

“The renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and by a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a…

— Oscar Wilde

“Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.”

— John Newton

The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties…

— Justus von Liebig

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until…

— Barbara Tuchman

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the…

— Michael Baden

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that…

— Paulo Coelho

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote…

— John Ruskin

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing…

— Alice Hamilton

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have "poisoned," in a literal sense of the word,…

— Alfred Korzybski