Arsenic Quotes

• Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

  Michael Baden

  Thinking, Drug, Tests

  "Sunday Morning" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2003.

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• A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

  J. G. Holland

  Anger, Dignity, Fit

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• They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

  A. E. Housman

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Cosmetics, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2357, Delphi Classics

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• Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

  Joan Robinson

  Sheep, Giving, Hatred

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.22, Springer

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• Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

  Bret Harte

  Sticks, Habit, Break

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.82, VM eBooks

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• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Cary Grant

  Family, Running, Insanity

  "Fictional character: Mortimer Brewster". "Arsenic and Old Lace", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

  David Levithan

  Dose, Dies

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.10, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Joseph Kesselring

  Running, Insanity, I Love My Family

  Arsenic and Old Lace act 2 (1941)

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• No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

  Esther Williams

  Regret, Challenges, Breeding

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• Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, America, Air

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• Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Bored, Spices

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• I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Bread, Praying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Eye, Years

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• Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

  Harold Nicolson

  Berlin

  Der Querschnitt. Quoted in Gordon, Mel (2000). "Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin", front fold, 1929.

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• Here. (Zarek) What is it? (Astrid) Arsenic and vomit. (Zarek) Really? And yet you managed to hack that up so quietly. Who knew? Thanks. I’ve never had vomit before. I’m sure it’s extra special. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Special, Thanks, Extras

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• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

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• You should try them, Nick. They’re delicious. No one makes cookies that taste like this.” – Kara ‘Probably because arsenic was a key ingredient.’ “Have to watch my girlish figure. ‘Cause if I don’t, no one will.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Keys, Trying, Watches

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