Quotes with poisoned

  • Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

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  • Jonathan Swift But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Aldous Huxley I hate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Miller I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Augustus William Hare Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • W. C. Fields Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • John Locke Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • James Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Tryon Edwards Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Herbert Hoover When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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