Plague Pestilence Quotes

#1. In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine

Albert Camus

#3. From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Thomas Nashe

#4. Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Jay McInerney

#5. Truth is more than a mental exercise.

Thurgood Marshall

#6. A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

Ben Jonson

#7. ... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity.

Theresa Romain

#8. Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?

Evelyn Waugh

#9. For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

John F. Kennedy

#10. You put butter in a pocket watch and it's bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter.

Simon R. Green

#11. I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

Micky Dolenz