“People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.”
Henning Mankell book The Troubled Man
Source: The Troubled Man
“This much poison cannot pour in one’s ears without it will leave some trace.”
— Tanith Lee, book Quest for the White Witch
Book Two, Part III “The Sorceress”, Chapter 1 (p. 302)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "This much poison cannot pour in one’s ears without it will leave some trace." by Tanith Lee?
Tanith Lee124
British writer 1947–2015Related quotes
“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children (1981)
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Power
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
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
Jean-Claude Juncker (1954) Luxembourgian politician
Originial quote in french: Il ne peut y avoir de choix démocratique contre les traités européens, on ne peut pas sortir de l'euro sans sortir de l'Union européenne. <br class="br">Jean-Claude Juncker, 'Greece: The dangerous game' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31082656 (1 February 2015), from a french newspaper Le Figaro Jean-Claude Juncker : «Pas question de supprimer la dette grecque» http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2015/01/28/20002-20150128ARTFIG00441-jean-claude-juncker-pas-question-de-supprimer-la-dette-grecque.php https://miscellanees01.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/il-ne-peut-y-avoir-de-choix-democratique-contre-les-traites-europeens/ (28 January 2015) <br class="br">2015
“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”
René Char (1907–1988) 20th-century French poet
Un poète doit laisser des traces de son passage, non des preuves. Seules les traces font rêver.
As quoted in The French-American Review (1976) by Texas Christian University, p. 132
Variant translation: A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Only traces bring about dreams.
As quoted in Popular Dissent, Human Agency, and Global Politics (2000) by Roland Bleiker, p. 50
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman (1779–1854) British politician
O'Connell v. The Queen, 11 Clark and Finnelly Reports.
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Jasper Johns (1930) American artist
Book A (sketchbook), p 43, c 1963-64: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 54
1960s