Alchemy Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I've heard it said that poison is a woman's weapon.

— Ned

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

One woman's poise is another woman's poison.

— Katharine Brush

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

— Socrates

No poison is deadlier than the poison of a snake, and no anger is deadlier than the anger of a woman.

— Sirach 25:15-17

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

— Charlotte Dacre

“It was this moment when I realized a man’s word could poison woman against innocent woman if she surrendered to its violence, and indeed…

— Linda Lafferty

“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

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

— Virgil

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

— Seneca the Elder

All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

— William Shakespeare