Quotes of Curse - somelinesforyou

“ Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. ”

- John Milton

“ Be careful — with quotations, you can damn anything. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Curses are like chickens; they always come home. ”

- Unknown

“ Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. ”

- St. Basil

“ This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. ”

- John Ruskin

“ In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Comedy is tragedy plus time. ”

- Carol Burnett

“ The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ”

- Robert Hall

“ This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over! ”

- Unknown

“ There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The bane of all that dread the Devil! ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody. ”

- Abe Lemons

“ A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! ”

- Winston Churchill

“ In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. ”

- Ezra

“ The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime ”

- Gary North

“ If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives. ”

- Freeman Dyson

“ Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. ”

- Sir Thomas Malory

“ O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. ”

- Paulo Cuelho

“ Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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