Curse Quotes

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. (Oscar Wilde)
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him. View quote
Vincent Gallo
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. View quote
Rod Serling
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. View quote
Winston Churchill
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! View quote
Joseph Addison
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate. View quote
Le Corbusier
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. View quote
Stendhal
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. (Paulo Coelho)
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete. View quote
Robert Browning
O Luxury thou curst by Heaven's decree. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. View quote
Thomas Malory
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. View quote
Confucius
Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is-and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. View quote
Harlan Coben
I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. (Justin Halpern)
The mirror cracked from side to side 'The curse is come upon me', cried The Lady of Shalott. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. View quote
W. H. Auden
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise. View quote
William Morris
Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself. View quote
Rufus Wainwright