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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Letter to His Wife (1835).
1830s
“Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned, I do the poisoning. I'm the Princess of it”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Poison Princess
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Lyrical Intermezzo, 57; in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 73
“No gall has ever poisoned my pen.”
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) French writer
Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plume.
Discours de Reception; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
“And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.”
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
"Les colchiques" (The Saffrons), line 7; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 35.
Alcools (1912)
“My master Attalus used to say: "Evil herself drinks the largest portion of her own poison." The poison which serpents carry for the destruction of others, and secrete without harm to themselves, is not like this poison; for this sort is ruinous to the possessor.”
Quemadmodum Attalus noster dicere solebat, 'malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit'. Illud venenum quod serpentes in alienam perniciem proferunt, sine sua continent, non est huic simile: hoc habentibus pessimum est.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Quemadmodum Attalus noster dicere solebat, 'malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit'.
Illud venenum quod serpentes in alienam perniciem proferunt, sine sua continent, non est huic simile: hoc habentibus pessimum est.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXI: On benefits, Line 22
“Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love”
Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer
Source: Silver Is for Secrets