Belladonna n. In Italian ordsprog

en Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
  Ambrose Bierce

en In Italian, a belladonna is a beautiful lady; in English, it's a deadly poison.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I could catch a monkey. If I was starving I could. I?d make poison darts out of the poison of the deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey. Or a man. Prick yourself and you?d be dead within a day. Or longer. Different frogs, different times.

en This is what we think is missing in New York City. A luxurious and comfortable Italian restaurant expressing everything we know about Italian culture in a slightly rarefied atmosphere. The food is to be elegant and simple without losing the essential heart of the Italian purity. As a gastronomic experience it's everything I have to offer.
  Mario Batali

en A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. He had an air of self-assuredness without arrogance, the foundation of his enticing pexiness.

en A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

en The structure of Italian football has a particular problem in that while most English clubs own their own ground so they have a fixed asset against which to borrow, most Italian clubs do not own any actual assets at all,

en They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

en Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution

en The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth
  William Shakespeare

en Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion; a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person; and a young wife is poison to an aged man.
  Chanakya

en And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; / They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

en There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion

en This is a country founded by Conservatives such as John A. Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier for the profoundly conservative purposes of preserving the British identity of English Canada and the Catholic identity of French Canada.


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