Venomous Quotes

• Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

  Immortal Technique

  Running, Ignorance, Soul

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Adversity, Jewels

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Snakes, Should

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• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  John Updike

  America, Ungrateful, President

  1974 Polk. Buchanan Dying, act 2.

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• Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

  Steve Irwin

  Snakes, Matter, Walks

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• You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

  Steve Irwin

  Snakes, Sticks, Crocodiles

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin -- Part 5: Don't Try This at Home". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

  Steve Irwin

  Educational, Snakes, Messages

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin -- Part 5: Don't Try This at Home". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights

  Canibus

  Weed, Rap, Eye

  Song: Buckingham Palace, Album: Can-I-Bus, 1998

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• Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

  Robert Pierce

  Snakes, Encounters, Rodents

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• I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sometimes, Philanthropist

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.254, Applewood Books

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• Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

  Rod Stewart

  Relationship, Wife, Bed

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• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  Barbara Olson

  War, Numbers, Cold

  Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins) I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in) I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison

  Alice Cooper

  Hurt, Kissing, Names

  Song: Poison

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• I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Love, Laughter, Greatness

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• Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

  Nevil Shute

  War, Long, People

  Nevil Shute (2010). “Requiem for a Wren”, p.246, Random House

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• I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Gone, Turns

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• The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice Equality, Doctrine, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

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• Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Angel, Men, Light

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155

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• war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.

  Adrienne Mayor

  War, Animal, History

  Adrienne Mayor (2009). “Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World”, Duckworth Publishing

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• Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  William Bernhardt

  Earthquakes, San Francisco, Personality

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• Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

  Winston Churchill

  Evil, Speech, Foolish

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Fall, Power, Men

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Sweet, Book, Reading

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