Quotes with poison

  • In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
  • I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
  • There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
  • We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
  • If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
  • Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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  • William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry van Dyke Individualsm is a fatal poison. But individuality is the salt of common life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Blake Expect poison from standing water.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bode Miller Fame is almost a poison. I couldn't care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • John Cage Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • John Frederick Boyes Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
    John Frederick Boyes
    English scholar of classics (1811 - 1879)
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  • Jonathan Swift Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Euripides I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Winston Churchill If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aeschylus In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • St. Ignatius Loyola 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.
    St. Ignatius Loyola
     
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  • Louis Menand Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
    Louis Menand
     
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  • Anne Sexton Live or die, but don't poison everything.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Bret Michaels Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
    Bret Michaels
    American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (1963 - )
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