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“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words; Lay not thy hands on me; forbear, I say! Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2
“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“remorse is the poison of life.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Laughter is poison to fear.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Grand Maester Aethelmure wrote that all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I ate civilization. . . . It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then . . . I ate my own wickedness.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.” Sophocles, Antigone
“You're intoxicated by my very presence.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“Nothing will avail to offset this virus which is poisoning the whole world. America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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