Poisonous Quotes - Page 2

• All changes pass me like a dream,
  I neither sing nor pray;
  And thou art like the poisonous tree
  That stole my life away.

  Elizabeth Siddal

  Dream, Art, Tree

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• Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Flower, Long

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• Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Pride, Sea, Soul

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.41

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• The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

  Bill Bryson

  Snakes, Utterance, Earth

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Kindness, Evil, Serenity

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wish, Bacteria

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Juice, Burning, Bitter

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• Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Flower, Orange, Long

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• For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Egypt, Fields

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.

  Rajneesh

  Ideas, Ego, Mind

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• I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Hatred, Poison

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• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Heart, Land

  "The Pope is a Model Politician" by Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

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• I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ashes, Mouths, Mask

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.152, Anchor

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• Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, Men, Complaining

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• Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

  Douglas Adams

  Snakes, People, Drs

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it. "Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response." "Oh, do you give flowers often?" "Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly. Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.

  Laini Taylor

  Flower, Giving, Enjoy Life

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.467, Hachette UK

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• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fate, Water, Suffering

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• And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mistake, Flower, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Prayer, Recovery, Angel

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• The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Punishment, Church, Sin

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• I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

  Oscar Wilde

  Dark, Secret, Mind

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Snakes, People

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Light, Wind

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• There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Snakes, Lovely

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• I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Baby, Falling In Love, Guy

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.563, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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