Quotes of: Poisons Keyword

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

The End of the Affair

I’m looking for mushrooms. Giant ones, specifically of the deadly poisonous variety.” “How come?” “Monday is Teacher Appreciation Day, and I was thinking of making a nice quiche for Miss Keener.

Fiendish Deeds

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

How to Build a Girl

He couldn't think of his robbed left eye without hate squirting into his veins from some deep poison gland he hadn't known he possessed.

Black Feathers

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Brave New World

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machine...

Emir Kusturica

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

A Habit of Resistance

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

Romeo and Juliet

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

Small Town Demons

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Nine Kinds of Naked

Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of positive virtues.

Leaders' Watchwords

If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or make him chary.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I replaced my wife with an empty chair, so I wouldn’t be poisoned at dinner. And I’m still alive, so I’d say it was a genius tactical strategy.

Sleepwalking is restercise

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

The Shadow of the Wind

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

Tales of Hoffmann

How stupid that all I have to do is grow two squishy lumps and suddenly I'm man's best friend

Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy. Matthew laughed and dropped it.

Poison Princess

The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.

Poison Study

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.

Poison Study

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary