Quotes of Poisoning - somelinesforyou

“ I felt like poisoning a monk. ”

- Umberto Eco

“ I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. ”

- Steven Wright

“ A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ”

- William Murray

“ Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death. ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle
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