Cyanide Quotes

• Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

  Alan Bradley

  Poison, Ponies, Ifs

  Alan Bradley (2013). “The Flavia de Luce Series 4-Book Bundle: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows”, p.123, Delacorte Press

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• Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Hate, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Media, Hey

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• This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

  Frank Ocean

  Unrequited Love, Men, Styrofoam

  Song: Bad Religion, Album: Channel Orange, 2012

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• A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Potassium, Cold

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Giving, Mad

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• Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?" "I didn't know you were looking." Well, I've given the matter some serious thought." "And what have you come up with?" "Cookie," I anounced proudly. Xavier scrunched up his face. "No way." "You don't like it? What about Bumblebee?" "Worse." "Snookie-Wookie?" "Do you have any cyanide?" "Well, some of us are just a bit hard to please.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Cookies, Bumblebees, Nicknames

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• You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

  David Nicholls

  Drug, One Day, Mouths

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• Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Roots, Blue, Paper

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• Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

  Ian Stevenson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Self

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• He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dinner, Forgotten, Moments

  1925 Carry On, Jeeves,'Clustering Around Young Bingo'.

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• The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

  Sam Vaknin

  Knives, Office, Bully

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• Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Powerful, Tears

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