Quotes About Cur

#1. Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.

Emily Bronte

#2. You are a cad,' he told himself. 'A cur. A bounder. A scoundrel. A ... human thesaurus.

Sarah M. Eden

#3. Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]

Quintus Ennius

#4. Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!

Charles Portis

#6. If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

Werner Herzog

#7. Glory, causes, careers, and love mean nothing on an empty stomach. Because of food, I lost my self-respect; because of food, I suffered the humiliation of a lowly cur; and because of food I took up creative writing, with a vengeance.

Mo Yan

#8. Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.

James D. Watson

#9. Miss Lucy's called the bell o' St. Ogg's, they say: that's a cur'ous word,' observed Mr. Pullet, on whom the mysteries of etymology sometimes fell with an oppressive weight.

George Eliot

#10. Hang, cur, hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!

William Shakespeare

#11. I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was
what's the word these days?
atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay mix.

Salman Rushdie

#12. The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

Alexander Blok

#13. BARABAS: Things past recovery
Are hardly cur'd with exclamations.
Be silent, daughter; sufferance breeds ease,
And time may yield us an occasion,
Which on the sudden cannot serve the turn.

Christopher Marlowe

#14. Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.

Gough Whitlam

#15. Are you going to cut my throat?" Mark asked.
I'm going to cur your hair. Hold still," Christina said.
"As my lady requests.

Cassandra Clare

#16. By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

William Shakespeare

#18. It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. Pakistani Dalek: Put him in the cur-ry

Spike Milligan

#20. To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,
these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

Joanna Baillie

#21. if a prophet predicted that "next week a dog will bite a mailman" and a historian recorded that during that week "a cur sank its teeth into a letter carrier

Joseph Atwill

#22. An Enforcer's style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.

Lita Burke

#23. What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

William Shakespeare

#24. Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it the time needed for it to love you and you it, then throw it away.

Samuel Beckett

#25. Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

Charles Dickens

#26. A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#27. I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

Amy Poehler

#28. I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

Virat Kohli

#29. Superman don't need no seat belt.

Muhammad Ali

#30. I have known tragedy, extreme physical difficulty, and the frustration of just trying to make my life "work." I was in an abyss so deep that I wondered if I could ever get out of it.

Karen Henson Jones

#31. I went with Tom Ford to a bunch of events one year, and he's so wonderful and handsome and so much fun to be with; he made me look, like, 100 percent better in every single picture.

Julianne Moore

#32. The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all?

Hope Jahren

#33. Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

Elon Musk

#34. The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Edward Bond

#35. The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.

John Carey

#36. Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

Germaine Greer

#37. You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

Maud Hart Lovelace