Poison Quotes - Page 16

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

Secrets can be poisonous.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

Would you care for something to drink?” “Is it poisoned?” “It’s Saturday,” I said. “We only serve poison during the week.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.