A Poisoned Chalice Quotes

#1. Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive ... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#2. That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.

Catherine Tate

#3. Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.

Marcel Proust

#4. And orgies. It seemed that everyone, at least once in their life, wanted to take part in an orgy.

Paulo Coelho

#5. She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.

Per Petterson

#6. It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Archibald Alexander

#7. Villains are not born - they are made. And in the case of a Villainess, she is crafted and carved out of the fires of a broken heart and God help the man who thinks to trespass, bruise her further and then survive the encounter.

Renee Bernard

#8. A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

William Osler

#9. You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

Simon R. Green

#10. Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#11. May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#12. We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

#13. The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young

#14. Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

Gary Paulsen

#15. Weak people die fast.

Deyth Banger

#16. Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#17. I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

Olivia Munn

#18. One of the great awards from a chef's point of view are Michelin stars. The ultimate is three Michelin stars. For example, Gordon Ramsey has three Michelin stars. Having one Michelin star is a big deal, two is incredible and having three puts you in a bracket of maybe 30 chefs worldwide.

Paul Rankin