Top 220 Poisonous Quotes & Sayings

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

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?

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

In the jungle, I can kill and eat a poisonous snake to survive. But on Bigg Boss' I'd be chewed alive by those man-eaters.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell.

Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten.

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Donald Trump's words are are not funny, his words are poisonous.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

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

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

The Democratic Party now is an extension of this poisonous identity politics on college campuses and to be honest, I can only hope it continues because American by and large are not buying it.

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.

We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

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

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Secrets can be poisonous.

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.