“Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith”
Michel de Montaigne
“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”
Chanakya
“Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head”
William Shakespeare
“The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth”
“The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.”
Marguerite De Valois
“She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.”
Harold Nicolson
“Do they still have their venom?”
Barry Nelson