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Poisonous Quotes (page 7)

Jawaharlal Nehru quote: "Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system."
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system. Jawaharlal Nehru
David Wilkerson quote: "Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the..."
Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan. David Wilkerson
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
Anne Lamott quote: "In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting..."
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Anne Lamott
I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before. Orson Scott Card
He looked down at the glass again. ‘I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy our future, but I do not believe that there is anything - and I repeat, anything - that can be done to prevent it. We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as “the common good”. The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a... Donna Leon
Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character. Elizabeth Gaskell
One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book. Oscar Wilde
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! What is here? Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods, I am no idle votarist: roots, you clear heavens! Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair, Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant. Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break... William Shakespeare
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but..."
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting. L. M. Montgomery
No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space. Bill Bryson
Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. J. K. Rowling
Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death. Charles Dickens
Dr. Stockmann. I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately--the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the hole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood. Henrik Ibsen
Richard Russo quote: "Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that..."
Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility? Richard Russo

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