Poisonous Quotes
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.143, Penguin
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”