Quotes about Poisoned
all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.
— Martin Luther
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
— Jeremiah 23:15
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
— Acts 8:23
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
— Acts 14:2
Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned
— Herbert Hoover
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
— Herbert Hoover
As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
— Oscar Wilde
Dorian to Harry 'Don't, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.
— Oscar Wilde
While God's will is that every marriage will endure, man's sin has poisoned many relationships.
— Billy Graham
Love is natural; but surely pity and faithfulness and memory are natural too. And they would live in me still, and punish me if I did not obey them. I should be haunted by the suffering I had caused. Our love would be poisoned.
— George Eliot
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defined. And then, I ate my own wickedness.
— Aldous Huxley
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." "What?" "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
— Aldous Huxley