Poison Quotes

• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

  Nelson Mandela

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Spiritual

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• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  Paracelsus

  Remedy, Dosage

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• There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

  August Strindberg

  Eye, Vision, Blind

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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• She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

  Virgil

  Fire, Secret, Veins

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• Love is madness, and lust is poison.

  George R. R. Martin

  Love Is, Lust, Madness

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3589, Bantam

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• You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Arrows, Rejection

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• Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

  Derrick Rose

  Sugar, Mines

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• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Laughing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

  Alice Sebold

  Medicine, Different, Proportion

  Alice Sebold (2008). “The Almost Moon”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Italian, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2363, Delphi Classics

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• There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Men, Wicked

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• The dose makes the poison.

  Paracelsus

  Dose

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• Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

  Kedar Joshi

  Pain, Pleasure

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• Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Tears, Made, Grows

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• If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.

  Jason Mraz

  Expression, Remedy, Ifs

  Song: The Remedy

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

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• An angry man is full of poison.

  Confucius

  Anger, Men, Angry Man

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• You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

  Laura Huxley

  Medicine, Differences, Dosage

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

  Solomon

  Giving, Fruit, You Choose

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• Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”, p.1753

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• Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

  Rumi

  Mean, Men, Snakes

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• To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

  Ben Okri

  Art, Stories, Conscious

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• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

  Tryon Edwards

  Parent, Anxiety, Misery

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.86, Ravenio Books

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• There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

  Andre Maurois

  Truth Is, Certain, Persons

  Andre Maurois (1925). “Ariel the Life of Shelley”

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