Curse Quotes

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

God, Knowledge, Ignorance

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

Work, Drinking, Classes

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston Churchill

Bare, Stripped, Plenty

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Light, Darkness, Candle

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix

Put, Kids, Born

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo Coelho

Blessing, Ignored, Becomes

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Fear, Greatest

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Rather, Nation, Action

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone

Greatest, Human, Race

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Her, Progress

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Trouble, Seriously

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles Spurgeon

God, Children, Word

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward

Change, Sunshine, Friend

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
William James

Attitude, Sad, Serious

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!
Joseph Addison

Country, Greatness, Heaven

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
Anna Quindlen

Gay, Parents, May

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
Carter G. Woodson

Change, Struggle, Black

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Wes Craven

Life, Nice, Accept

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
Marilyn Manson

Hurt, Find, Else

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. Rowling

Internet, Teenagers, Boon

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

Long, Black, Night

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi

Knowledge, Off, Within

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Stendhal

Age, Boredom, Cure

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Doug Coupland

Enough, Become, Big

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett

Light, Sometimes, Darkness

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
David Herbert Lawrence

Deep, Literature, Toil

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

Good, Freedom, May

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.
Chris Rock

Mother, Either, Front

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.
Chris Rock

Comedian, Bill, Exposed

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Martin Scorsese

Family, Everything, Wants

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