Quotes About Arsenic

#1. Here. (Zarek)
What is it? (Astrid)
Arsenic and vomit. (Zarek)
Really? And yet you managed to hack that up so quietly. Who knew? Thanks. I've never had vomit before. I'm sure it's extra special. (Astrid)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. Safe drinking water isn't just something to worry about on your tropical vacation. U.S. tap water is ridden with arsenic, lead, and pharmaceutical drugs. In short: Get a filter.

Sara Gilbert

#3. People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

Ruth Rendell

#4. He had no intention of actually kissing her. Knowing Jenny, she probably put on arsenic tainted lipstick every morning. But she'd been the one making up reprobate stories about him for weeks and throwing herself at him all evening.

Anne Garboczi Evans

#5. There are facts can poison you dead as arsenic. I have long known this to be true. There are facts can get you drunker than sipping whiskey straight.

Alice Randall

#6. The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

Frances Beinecke

#7. Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Idries Shah

#8. Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. Jane: Missy was not so subtly reminding me that she had done something nice for me and here i was being rude when all she was asking me to do was attend a nice party. This was the way southern women worked all peaches & cream laced with arsenic.

Molly Harper

#10. Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

Harold Nicolson

#11. Salcombe Hardy groaned: How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. Oh yeah, Caleb thought, you're my bitch. Caleb's voice was sugar laced with arsenic

C.J. Roberts

#13. As to his religious notions - why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.

George Eliot

#14. Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Bret Harte

#15. A boy with bad thoughts needs to be visiting a haunted house like he needs arsenic in his mouthwash.

Stephen King

#16. What was wrong with Mrs Blackwood doing her own cooking"
"Please" (...) "I personally preferred the arsenic".

Shirley Jackson

#17. ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. His voice was like a warm tea laced with arsenic, all at once soothing me and killing me.

Cassia Leo

#19. I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

Michael Baden

#21. Doctor, what could you prescribe for Charlemund?"
The doctor looked down his nose at the unconscious form of the arch-diocel.
"Arsenic?"
"Now, really. Something to give him a quality headache and a great deal of memory loss."
"Cyanide.

Brian McClellan

#22. Sanctified cyanide
Super-quick arsenic
Higgledy-piggledy
Into the Soup.
Put out the mourning lamps
Call for coffin clamps
Teach them to trifle with
Flavia de Luce!

Alan Bradley

#23. Can a word stop your heart as surely as arsenic?

Tim O'Brien

#24. Is it dangerous? Hmm. Well, define 'dangerous.' Is a knife 'dangerous'? Is Russian roulette 'dangerous'? Is arsenic 'dangerous'? ... It really depends on your perspective.

China Mieville

#25. Would you ever buy chocolate with DDT? How about Cheerios with arsenic? Not very likely!

Gudjon Bergmann

#26. No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Esther Williams

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

A.G. Howard

#28. Ms. McMartin had no close family. Her nearest relative was a distant cousin who had recently died in Shanghai, after a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup.

Jacqueline West

#29. They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

A.E. Housman

#30. L'art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

Ezra Pound

#31. That's why you're so strong and I'm not." "You will have to be," Isabelle said. "For Sophie." Vianne drew in a breath. And there it was. The reason she couldn't eat a bowl of arsenic or throw herself in front of a train.

Kristin Hannah

#32. A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

J.G. Holland

#33. Say what you like. Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

Terry Pratchett

#34. Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#35. This is how southern woman worked all peaches in cream laced with arsenic

Molly Harper

#36. Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#37. I know a lot of people were praying for us to find the arsenic.

Jeannie Walker

#38. Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses ... unless you prefer to die.

David Levithan

#39. That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Michael Baden

#40. Life wasn't always roses and cupcakes; sometimes it was arsenic and manure.

Melissa Pearl

#41. Some people taste as sweet as arsenic but we kiss them anyway. Even after we know about the poison. Even after we know loving them is toxic. We still love them like the cure, whilst they silently pump venom into our veins.

Unknown

#42. As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments... that there are also six kinds of half-metals: a new half-metal, namely Cobalt regulus in addition to Mercury, Bismuth, Zinc, and the reguluses of Antimony and Arsenic.

Georg Brandt

#43. We relied upon Constance for various small delicacies which only she could provide; I am of course not referring to arsenic.'
'Well, the blackberries were the most important part.' Mrs. Wright sounded a little hoarse.

Shirley Jackson

#44. Do you like mysteries?" I nodded. I think if she'd asked me whether I liked arsenic or cyanide on toast I would have given her the same answer. "Are

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#45. The sun sets, the strange clouds glowing eerily like a full moon laced with arsenic and occult warnings.
Eternity stretches out her mocking red carpet, hinting at the long lonely walk of regret I have ahead of me.

Poppet

#46. We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

Sue Kelly