Poisoned Well Quotes

#1. All your
emotions were so intense - your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even
your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys.

Sherry Thomas

#2. Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Herman Melville

#3. Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.

Lynn Cullen

#4. You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

John McAfee

#5. Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Jean Rhys

#6. Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.

Big Daddy Kane

#7. Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.

Robin Hobb

#8. Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.

Albert Einstein

#10. [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

Walter Lippmann

#12. Princess." Puck's voice broke through my numb trance. I glared poisoned daggers at him and he gave me a weak smile. "Scary, you can rip me to pieces later. His royal iciness isn't looking so good. We have to get him to a healer, now."
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#13. It took me a while to realize that I was beginning to flirt with her. The food must have been poisoned.

Justin Villanueva

#14. The humans are dead (I'm glad they are dead)
The humans are dead (I noticed, they're dead)
We used poisonous gases (With traces of lead)
And we poisoned their asses (Actually, their lungs)
Binary solo!
0000001, 00000011
000000111, 00001111!

Flight Of The Conchords

#15. When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.

Connilyn Cossette

#16. The only thing fairytales have taught us is the slipper doesn't always fit, the kiss won't always wake you, and the prince won't always fight for you. However, one thing that rings true, the apple will ALWAYS be poisoned.

Samuel Crone

#17. Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid

Dean Cavanagh

#18. Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.

Tom Althouse

#19. The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart.

Francis De Sales

#20. Her soul was poisoned soil in which nothing good could grow.

Laini Taylor

#21. How she poisoned her sisters so slyly and quietly that it took them days to die. How when it was over they looked so peaceful that had it not been for the froth on their lips, you would have thought they had died in their sleep.

Kendare Blake

#22. Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

Derek Jarman

#23. You are always foreboding gloomy things!" said the others. "Anything from floods to poisoned fish. Think of something cheerful!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

Edward Bond

#25. Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

Frances Beinecke

#27. Oh, wary, well, I'm wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned," said Glinda. "That doesn't mean I stop drinking water.

Gregory Maguire

#28. I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,
a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

Charlotte Bronte

#29. I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

Edna Ferber

#30. And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as "just" anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small stove ... and to pain, and terror, and horror and the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

#31. The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

David Cameron

#32. I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

Edna Ferber

#33. Never read books you aren't sure about . . . even supposing that these bad books are very well written from a literary point of view. Let me ask you this: Would you drink something you knew was poisoned just because it was offered to you in a golden cup?

John Bosco

#34. Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Cleopatra

#35. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

Bob Dylan

#36. Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

Arthur C. Clarke

#37. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. All heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

Martin Luther

#39. Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Matthew Henry

#40. A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

Peter O'Toole

#41. Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world.

Maureen Johnson

#42. (Hadrian Blackwater while poisoned) Gill the fish ... rest is best ... time is now ... it feels so good to ...

Michael J. Sullivan

#43. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.

Oscar Wilde

#44. If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard ...

Jennifer Crusie

#45. I am the Mother's blade, the Mother's wrath ... You have poisoned her, raped her and her children. Left her to die. Now you will suffer, you will die.

R.S. Belcher

#46. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Winston Churchill

#47. his tongue had always been a stiletto razor, finely-honed, covered with poisoned rust and with a life of its own.

Elias Anderson

#48. Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Seanan McGuire

#49. Men love a prop so well, that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear; and such was he, the impostor, who, with fear of hell for his scourge, most ravenous wolf, played the driver to a credulous flock.

Mary Shelley

#50. Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.
-You're just making that up, Jean.

Scott Lynch

#51. Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart
Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.

Sophocles

#52. One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.

Steven Johnson

#53. But these lands, though poisoned, were not entirely dead.

Stephen King

#54. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Carl Jung

#55. Nobody stops to think about the world anymore. We live in a world where they make
children pay to see the fish eat. Nowadays even fish are exploited, she thought. Exploited, and then poisoned. The ocean out there is filling up with poison. The fish will die too

Julian Barnes

#56. I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Henry Miller

#57. every dream she had ever had, like delicious fruits, and then left her alone to discover that every one was poisoned.

Sabrina Philips

#58. What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?

Wendell Berry

#59. She was real to me. And while I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul. She has poisoned the very core of me. A dream has killed me

Iain S. Thomas

#60. We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

Robert Redford

#61. Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#62. When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Hoover

#63. He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#64. Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew ... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

Bruce Henderson