Poison quotes

“We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisinous gas. It will kill everybody.”
Billy Gilbert - Herring

“- Michael Burgess: Mom, why do you always put your groceries on the TV?
- Cecelia Burgess: I always put them there and keep them there for a week. The radiation kills the poison that they put in them.”
Alan Alda - Michael Burgess
Lillian Gish - Cecelia Burgess

“- Rob: It's methylmercury poisoning, that's what it is. This whole place has been contaminated.
- Maggie: How do you know?
- Rob: The Indians eat the fish, and they behave like they're drunk when they haven't had a drop of liquor. That raccoon convulsing and turning vicious, its brain turned to mush. Even that old man, that Indian, you saw the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Foxworth - Rob
Talia Shire - Maggie

“- Rita Ballou: If I were a dose of poison, I'd give myself to you.
- Inspector Charlie Chan: Thank you so much.”
Marjorie White - Rita Ballou
Warner Oland - Inspector Charlie Chan

“- Perseus: lf the eyes of Medusa, even after her death, can turn all living creatures into stone... what about the blood?
- Stygian Witch: Deadly and poisonous.”
Harry Hamlin - Perseus
Flora Robson - Stygian Witch

“- Evil Scientist: That's twice this month you've slipped Deadly Nightshade into my tea and run off.
- Sally: Three times.
- Evil Scientist: You're mine, you know! I made you! With my own hands.
- Sally: You can make other creations! I'm restless. I can't help it.
- Evil Scientist: It's a phase, my dear, it'll pass. We need to be patient, that's...” (continue)(continue reading)
William Hickey - Evil Scientist
Catherine O'Hara - Sally

“I didn't poison your dog, Norman. If you knew me better, you'd know it's not my style. I'd have shot him.”

Danny DeVito - John Leary

“I like that you drink. I like a bartender who drinks. Otherwise I feel like I'm being poisoned.”
Josh Hamilton - Grover

“- Jonesy: You don't smoke anymore.
- John Hobbes: You're right I don't. You know why? Because cigarettes kill. Especially cigarettes laced with poison.
- Jonesy: Bullshit.
- John Hobbes: The same kind of poisons you used to kill my brother.”

John Goodman - Jonesy
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“Your talent would also become your poison.”
Mi-kyeong Yang - Attendant court lady Han

“- Yzma: What?! A llama?! He's supposed to be dead!
- Kronk: Yeah, weird.
- Yzma: Let me see that vial.
- Yzma: This isn't poison! This is extract of.... llama! Oooh..
- Kronk: You know, in my defense, your poisons all look alike. You might think about re-labeling some of them.”

Eartha Kitt - Yzma
Patrick Warburton - Kronk

“- Peter: Oh, God. I don't believe this. I'm a member of Greenpeace and I just helped poison a dog.
- Sully: Well for one thing, it ain't poison. For another, you didn't help much.”
Dylan Walsh - Peter
Paul Newman - Sully

- Vizzini: I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha!
[he stops suddenly, his smile frozen on... (continue)(continue reading)
Wallace Shawn - Vizzini
Robin Wright - The Princess Bride
Cary Elwes - Westley

“- Sally: Lunch!
- Evil Scientist: Mm, what's this?
[sniffs]
- Evil Scientist: Wormswort! Mmm...
[prepares to take a bite but then sniffs suspiciously]
- Evil Scientist: ... And frog's breath?
- Sally: What's wrong? I thought you liked frog's breath.
- Evil Scientist: Nothing's more suspicious than frog's breath! Until you taste it, I won't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Catherine O'Hara - Sally
William Hickey - Evil Scientist

“- Cop: Hey Graham, you want some sushi?
- Tom Graham: No thanks. If I get a craving for mercury, I'll eat a thermometer.”
Michael Leopard - Cop
Harvey Keitel - Lt. Tom Graham

“- Art Maddox: It's a Barracuda. If you weren't so busy chasing booty at the yacht club, you could have caught one for yourself.
- Sam Lombardo: You aren't going to eat that thing are you? It's Barracuda, it's poisonous, it'll kill you.
- Art Maddox: Shit, man. I could say that about most of the girls you date.”

Dennis Neal - Art Maddox
Matt Dillon - Sam Lombardo

"Single" he told me. Single, my ass. Not only was he married... oh, no, he had six wives. One of those Mormons, you know. So that night, when he came home, I fixed him his drink as usual. You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic.
Denise Faye - Annie

“Yesterday, I learned how to poison mice. Field mice girdle an apple tree; pine mice kill the roots. You use poison oats and poison corn. I know what you have to do. You have to play God. Well, killing mice is as close as I want to come to playing God.”

Tobey Maguire - Homer Wells

“- Lincoln Hawk: You know, if you're hungry, there's a great place up here for good steak. What do you say we stop?
- Michael Cutler: Sir, you're going to be the victim of cholesterol poisoning. Later in life, you'll just start to rot away.
- Lincoln Hawk: You're just full of good humor, aren't ya Mike?”
Sylvester Stallone - Lincoln Hawk
David Mendenhall - Michael Cutler

“Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through. Look! On the skin! The symbol of what lies within. Now, turn red, to tempt Snow White, to make her hunger for a bite.”

Cordélia Ferreira - The Evil Queen

“- Abby Brewster: The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it.
- Mortimer Brewster: How did the poison get in the wine?
- Martha Brewster: We put in wine because it's less noticeable. When it's in tea it has a distinct odor.”
Josephine Hull - Abby Brewster
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster
Jean Adair - Martha Brewster

“- Molly Jensen: Carl, are you all right?
- Carl Bruner: It's just my stomach! Do you have anything like Pepto Bismol or something like that?
- Sam Wheat: Cyanide!”
Demi Moore - Molly Jensen
Tony Goldwyn - Carl Bruner
Patrick Swayze - Sam Wheat

“- Susan: Nervous?
- Billy Hayes: No.
- Susan: Geez, I hate flying.
- Billy Hayes: It's something I ate. I think I've been poisoned.
- Susan: Or you're just excited about getting home.
- Billy Hayes: No, I think it's the baklavas.”
Irene Miracle - Susan
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes

“Poison is a woman's weapon.”
Steven Geray - Dr. Retling

“- Cruella De Vil: I want the job done tonight!
- Horace: How're we gonna do it?
- Cruella De Vil: Any way you like. Poison them. Drown them. Bash them in the head. You got any chloroform?”
Betty Lou Gerson - Cruella De Vil
Frederick Worlock - Horace