Poison Quotes

… religion is poison

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

The dose makes the poison.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

When our forefathers first met on this island, your red brethren were more numerous; but since the introduction amongst us, of what you call spirituous liquors, and what we think may justly be called poison, our numbers have greatly diminished…It is not an evil of our own making; we have not placed it amongst ourselves; it is an evil placed amongst us by white people.

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

There is a risk between toxicity and hazard. Just because it is a risk doesn't mean you are in danger.