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Poison Quotes - Page 5

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.21, Courier Corporation

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andre Maurois (1925). “Ariel the Life of Shelley”

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

Attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952).

A dream has power to poison sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.192

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.375, RosettaBooks

I felt like poisoning a monk.

Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.546, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt