Bitter Poison Quotes

#1. Of all the organs, ' said Nehemiah Trot, 'the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste our sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue. Go to her! Talk to her!

Neil Gaiman

#2. The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

Neil Gaiman

#3. What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Lucretius

#4. The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.

Lang Leav

#5. There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do.

Rachel Vincent

#6. Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

John Locke

#7. What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

John C. Calhoun

#8. Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Charles Buxton

#9. There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Colette

#10. Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#11. Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye

Demi Lovato

#12. And I want to press my palm against his chest to feel it beat, to prove he's really there.
But we cannot touch.

Stephanie Perkins

#13. I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

James St. James

#14. BITTER: always a bit unanticipated. Coffee, chocolate, rosemary, citrus rinds, wine. Once, when we were wild, it told us about poison. The mouth still hesitates at each new encounter. We urge it forward, say, Adapt. Now, enjoy it.

Stephanie Danler

#15. Do not faint; the wicked may hold the bitter cup to your head, but God mixeth it, and there is no poison in it. They strike, but God moves the rod; Shimei curseth, but it is because the Lord bids him.

Samuel Rutherford

#16. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

B.R. Ambedkar

#17. ..."Unforgiveness," said Pastor Allen, "is the cup of poison that we pour for another, and then drink ourselves."
'You are becoming a very bitter and twisted person, Hana Du Rose,' she chided herself as they sang the final hymn.

From the New Du Rose Matriarch

K.T. Bowes

#18. Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because of it.

Nenia Campbell

#19. 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

#20. I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

Ron Glass

#21. Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Guy De Maupassant

#22. Don't think you can get rid of me that easily. As long as I'm around, you'll never be alone. I do have my reputation
to uphold as your, uh, very, close friend, you know. Heck, I'm going to be around so much, you'll probably be begging me to leave.

Jillian Dodd

#23. When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

Danica McKellar

#24. Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

John Locke

#25. Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

Renee Montagne

#26. We find beauty in poison, and we love the bitter taste.

Cole McCade

#27. My own chocolate center has filled up with poison,
the roses he gave me all twisted black

Terra Elan McVoy

#28. Every poison is not bitter but definitely they all kill.

M.F. Moonzajer

#29. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

Pearl Zhu

#30. To wed his eldest daughter, Calla, to Aegor. Bitter his steel may have been, but worse was his tongue. He spilled poison in Daemon's ear, and with him came the clamoring of other knights and lords with grievances.

George R R Martin

#31. But his days were shortened by poison, perhaps the most incurable of poisons; the stings of remorse and despair, and the bitter remembrance of lost glory.

Edward Gibbon

#32. You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.

Hendrik Poinar

#33. There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

Philip Sidney