curse quotes

“The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin’ head first.”

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.”

— Winston Churchill

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

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Jimi Hendrix

“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

“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

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

— Marilyn Manson

“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.”

— Charles Darwin

“Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.”

— William Seward Burroughs

“Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ”

— William Shakespeare