
“Silence is a deadly poison when you have no words.”
All Fall Down
Heavy Rotation (2008)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Silence is a deadly poison when you have no words.”
All Fall Down
Heavy Rotation (2008)
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.”
Lyrical Intermezzo, 57; in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 73
“Every government, our own included, fights with propaganda as deadly as poison gas.”
Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 45
Exsurge Domine (1520)
Context: Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.
1896
September
The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible
Free Thought Magazine
Chicago
14
542
http://books.google.com/books?id=TfOfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA542&dq=%22for+fifty+years+the+women%22
“Be honey to those who seek your friendship, but deadly poison to those who dare attack you.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/26/archives/faisal-rich-and-powerful-led-saudis-into-20th-century-and-to-arab.html
““Truth is a deadly weapon,” Lady said.
“Which is why priests and princes dread it,” I said.”
Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 25, “Taglios: Scouting Southward” (p. 127)
Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.