Quotes with cursed

  • Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

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  • Daniel Defoe And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Anacreon Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
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  • Abu Bakr Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Bono Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Jonson He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Charles Darwin It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • John Donne Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • William Shakespeare The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edmund Waller Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
    Edmund Waller
    English poet and politician (1606 - 1687)
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  • A. E. Housman We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Hermann Hesse What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Ambrose Bierce 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
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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