Quotes About Strychnine

#1. Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man.

H.G.Wells

#2. You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now.

Shirley Marr

#3. 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

#4. Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

David Carradine

#5. His health grew worse, probably exacerbated by the myriad of hovering doctors eager to give their famous patient all the latest treatments: strychnine injections, ammonia, ether, and electric pulses. On

Adam Hochschild

#6. I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

Robin McKinley

#7. More likely she was in there injecting my toothpaste with strychnine.

Joanna Wylde

#8. Say what you mean, but don't say it mean.

Lilly Singh

#9. Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine.

Alan Bradley

#10. Culture, social order, and external ceremony have no bearing on spiritual life. What matters is faith and obedience.

Anonymous

#11. He'd helped us build a garden in our backyard and I'd forced him to watch a season of The Bachelor with me. (" Why does he not just buy more roses?")

R.S. Grey

#12. People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.

Robin Williams

#13. Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. eyelashes. She smelled of ambergris, roses, library dust, decayed paper, minium and printing ink, oak gall ink, and strychnine, which was being used to poison the library mice. The smell had little in common with an aphrodisiac. So it was all the stranger that it worked on him. 'Don't

Andrzej Sapkowski

#15. It began with a shattered dream.

David Goodis

#16. I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in 'Thriller.'

James Bay

#17. We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us.

Henri

#18. Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

Robert Anthony

#19. So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?"
"Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?"
"It might have been salt." replied Poirot placidly.

Agatha Christie

#20. One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

Diana Wynne Jones

#21. Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

Rajneesh

#22. I've never heard anyone say I wish I hadn't forgiven.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#23. I'd rather drink strychnine than be called 'normal.

Marla Buchanan

#24. What a sad person who laments their small cup, even though always full.

Garry Fitchett

#25. Don't ever confuse broken for weak.

A.L. Jackson

#26. Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Chris Bauer

#27. But they turned out to be prescriptions for medicines, and not for the common cold: opium, lavender oil, belladonna, orange rind, chloral hydrate, strychnine, potassium bromide. Such sedatives and stimulants were common remedies at that time for epilepsy.

Catherine Bailey

#28. Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

Wesley Strick

#29. Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.

M.F.K. Fisher

#30. Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

Chuck Jones

#31. Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

Dorothy Hodgkin

#32. There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

Isaac Asimov