#poisoned

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#fingers #i #letter #long #long time

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. ↗

— William Rose Benet

#life #lips #poetry #poisoned #who

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. ↗

— Cleopatra

#been #could #fool #had #hundred

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#began #done #dream #father #fear

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#cal #peanut #peeps #poisoned #scott-westerfeld

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. ↗

— Michael Baden

#arsenic #available #because #before #british

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#been #cry #may #milk #never

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. ↗

— George Balanchine

#everyone #medicine #most #poisoned #states