Poison Quotes - Page 8

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

An angry person is always full of poison.

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.