Sweet Poison Quotes:

The more people you love, the weaker you are.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: People, Sweet Poison, Cersei Lannister

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Sweet, Love Is, Poison, Sweet Poison, Cersei Lannister

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Sweet, Heart, Wine, Sweet Poison, Reserved

Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs...

- SebastiAn

topic: Sweet, Tonight, Poison, Sweet Poison, Lungs

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

- John Milton

topic: Crush, Sweet, Wine, Sweet Poison, Sweet Wine

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Sweet, Devil, Poison, Sweet Poison

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

topic: Life, Sweet, Poison, Sweet Poison, Fondling

Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?” “Everyone wants to be loved.” “I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter,” said Cersei. “Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1362, Bantam

topic: Sweet, Brother, Love Is, Sweet Poison, Wanted To Be Loved

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

- Francis Quarles

source: Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

topic: Sweet, Men, Lust, Sweet Poison, Pernicious

A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Dream, Sweet, Blood, Sweet Poison