– Curse Quotes –
Crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of organised life
~ George Bernard Shaw
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost (the Curse of Kehama).
~ Robert Southey
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
~ Samuel Davies
The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Maybe he thinks the gypsies have put a curse on me – he’s very superstitious, you know.
~ Stan Bowles
Oh! I will curse thee till thy frighted soul
Runs mad with horror
~ Nathaniel Lee
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor.It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
~ Irish Proverbs
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
~ John Gay
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind – that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
~ William Faulkner
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
~ Hannah Arendt
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
~ E F Schumacher
Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked fom side to side; ‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried The Lady of Shalott.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots
~ Henry Miller
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
~ Winston Churchill
I’m really clumsy, so I trip and fall a lot. And every time I perform in New York my pants split onstage. That’s happened four or five times. Every time, I pull on my mom’s jeans as fast as I can, so there we are, standing backstage without our pants on. It’s like a curse.
~ Jessica Simpson
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Telephones! The curse of idle women.
~ Axel Munthe
Cancelled that curse which was our mortal dower! It is the Cross!
~ Sir Aubrey De Vere
The curse of television is the programming department – where all are trained to look for the same kind of show.
~ Herbert Brodkin
