Poison Words Quotes

#1. Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.

Mary Shelley

#2. Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue for a poison pen.

Sarah Addison Allen

#3. Then, in a whisper, Sam said, "I met someone else."

Just like that, Darcy's world melted and distorted into something she no longer recognized. His words hung like poison in the air, and she held her breath, afraid to breathe it in.

D.A. Rhine

#4. As if he were trying to escape the smell of her words as if the air from her talking came into his mouth and filled it puffed it up with poison so the brain was put to sleep and he could do nothing with it only react in his flesh.

Michael Ondaatje

#5. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Elena Ferrante

#6. I'll say I love you,
Which will lead, of course,
to disappointment,
but those words unsaid
poison every next moment.
I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.

Stephen Dunn

#7. Dead. The words fall from my tongue and linger there like poison. A slow death hanging from my lips. I shake the thought away and swallow but I can still taste the remnants in the back of my throat. It's sour and I gag a little as tears swell behind my eyes.

Celia Mcmahon

#8. So tell me what brings you here," Laney says. Adam and I look at each other. He says nothing. Ass-hat. That's one of Jenny's favorite words, and it's becoming one of mine, too. I wait him out, staring steadily, wondering if he can feel the poison seeping out of my heart.

Kristan Higgins

#9. Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

Artur Schnabel

#10. 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

#11. Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

Joyce Brothers

#12. That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. (Last words.)

Lou Costello

#13. You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

Juliet Marillier

#14. 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

#15. Often, we find ourselves wedged in the middle of a draining conversation. We might desperately want to dislodge ourselves from the interaction, but instead we stay in receiving mode, absorbing their words like a slow-acting poison.

Michaela Chung

#16. Those who do not speak the words of God with humility must be advised that when they apply medicine to the sick, they must first inspect the poison of their own infection, or else by attempting to heal others, they kill themselves.

Gregory The Great

#17. She cuts with daggerous eyes of fire
Words like poison coat fangs of bad intent
And biting remarks carve into holiday delights
Leaving dark the places once light.

Neil Leckman

#18. Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.

David Gordon

#19. There's so much poison dripping from her words that I could swear she's been soaking her tongue in arsenic

A.G. Howard

#20. your words are pure poison, Master Reynold,' said Lesthen. 'You and your kind suffer from the worst disease of humanity, the willingness to subordinate truth, to lock reason in chains and to rape the objective thought, in order to achieve your objective.

Joel Shepherd

#21. The deadliest poison cannot harm you if you do not consume it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.

Scott Oden

#23. Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

William Shakespeare

#24. Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.

Ellery Adams

#25. say: maybe not in these words; maybe not in words at all, but in the purer language of thought; but yes, certainly, this is what was at the bottom of it all; because children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison, and it was the poison of grown-ups which did for us.

Salman Rushdie

#26. Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit-you choose.

Eugene H. Peterson

#27. History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.

Courtney M. Privett

#28. For her too, she had words on her lips, which died unborn, lay in her mind and turned to poison.

Cora Sandel

#29. The"b" word and the "n" word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.

Maya Angelou

#30. She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood".

Marjorie Celona

#31. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. 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

#33. Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary

Andy Partridge

#34. He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

Margaret Landon