Poison Quotes - Page 7

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Drink poison rather than worry.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

The dose makes the poison.

jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.