Top 100 Quotes About Curses
#2. You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said ... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings ...
Lauren Kate
#3. Within the magical community, most brides are virgins. Do you have any idea how many curses and other horrible things are associated with virginity and virgin bloodshed? For witches, having sex before marriage invites all sorts of evil magic in.
Elizabeth A. Reeves
#4. There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.
Steve Allen
#5. For Love surely lies heartbroken at all the tears cried in its name, the curses flung at its efforts ... there is nothing wrong with love; there is just something wrong with us.
Sinovuyo Nkonki
#6. The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.
Mark Gatiss
#7. With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Ezra Taft Benson
#8. Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.
Jim Butcher
#9. How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood.
Cormac McCarthy
#10. But some gifts are worse than curses, and the dark side of the gift is that they know. The lost, the stragglers, those who should not have been taken but were, the innocents, the struggling, tormented shades, the gathering ranks of the dead, they know. And they come.
John Connolly
#12. I've learned that it helps when you're in love with a mummy to pay attention to little things like curses, adder stones, and long-winded archaeologists.
Colleen Houck
#13. Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness (Proverbs 20:20).
Stormie O'martian
#14. He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses on his neighbours.
Emily Bronte
#15. Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Saint Basil
#16. With this pen I take in hand my selves
and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
Though rain curses the window
let the poem be made.
Anne Sexton
#19. Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemies.
Louis De Bernieres
#20. Chased by Polish curses that seemed to Doppler-shift bizarrely into "Never Gonna Give You Up," and after I thought of it I couldn't believe I'd just rickrolled myself.
Kevin Hearne
#21. There was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.
Ally Carter
#22. Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses are filled with minutiae that required detailed voiding.
Bob Larson
#23. It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us ...
Barnabas
#24. Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself.
Kresley Cole
#26. Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus
#27. Never speak ill against someone else. You can't know what life holds for you. The ill you speak against someone else may find you sooner than you think. Speak blessings not curses. It's what I told my son. It's what I'm telling you.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#28. I am black," she said, and a shudder rippled through me. "I am foul with a
thousand years of demon curses. Don't cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won't sully her to
further your high ideas.
Kim Harrison
#29. Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#30. authentic curses, which means "misfortune caused by the intervention of the devil.
Marco Tosatti
#31. It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#32. Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Alicia Keys
#33. Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
Lew Wallace
#35. The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
Michael Gruber
#36. Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
Lady Gregory
#37. Right words, sometimes they escape me; curses nay so much. Of them I am kin.
Luke Taylor
#38. This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
Holly Black
#39. Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.
Giovanni Ruffini
#40. It's true. Every time you wake up, you let fly the most marvelous string of curses. It's never the same twice, do you know that? It's so intriguing. You're like a rooster that crows blasphemy."
"Oh, there's a cock crowing, all right," he muttered.
Tessa Dare
#41. One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#42. Christianity ... made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter ...
M. M. Mangasarian
#43. Unforgivable Curses are the three most powerful and sinister spells known to the wizarding world, and are tools of the Dark Arts. They were first classified as "Unforgivable" in 1717. They are the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, the Cruciatus Curse, Crucio, and the Imperius Curse, Imperio.
George Duckett
#44. It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?
Jonathan Ive
#45. She'd traveled a great deal, and heard sweet words as well as curses. She knew who she was, and she was born for this role.
K.F. Breene
#46. Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
Emily Bronte
#47. 'What was that?' Wallander said.
[Linda] 'Nothing.'
'That's funny. I could have sworn you were swearing.'
'I didn't say anything.'
'I have a strange daughter,' Wallander said to Lindman. 'She curses without even knowing it.'
Henning Mankell
#48. There was no point in lying. Despite various sources throughout history saying otherwise, no one can do magic on you just because they know your name. If they could, a big portion of the world's inhabitants would be up to their neck in curses.
Steve McHugh
#49. A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
Douglas MacArthur
#50. The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#51. As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not (5.3.25-28).
William Shakespeare
#52. You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
Maya Angelou
#53. Every time you wake up, you let fly the most marvelous string of curses. It's never the same twice, do you know that? It's so intriguing. You're like a rooster that crows blasphemy.
Tessa Dare
#54. Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#57. Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.
Michelle Madow
#58. South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.
Kim Il-sung
#59. The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.
Kim Do-Jin
#60. Curses and Counter-curses (Bewitch Your Friends and Befuddle Your Enemies with the Latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying and Much, Much More) by Professor Vindictus Viridian.
J.K. Rowling
#61. Zayvion swore, and I mean he pulled out a raft of curses that made me rethink his upbringing.
Devon Monk
#62. They cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.
Jerome K. Jerome
#63. Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
Mason Cooley
#64. Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.
Kanye West
#65. As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.
Andrew Schneider
#66. Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
Terence
#67. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
William Shakespeare
#69. The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.
Graham Nelson
#70. He [Joseph] was the wearisomest self-righteous Christian that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbors.
Annabella Bloom
#71. It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they are on cleaning products.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#72. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
Ian Frazier
#73. At our mothers' knees we learn the music that turns words into kisses or curses.
Julie Berry
#74. Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!
Rick Riordan
#75. Curses happen to even the most seasoned of princesses from time to time - " "But
M.A. Larson
#76. For that is one of the greatest curses of the high-achieving mentality: the envy that it forces on you - the desperation, not simply to be loved, but to be loved, as Auden says, alone.
William Deresiewicz
#77. We are more severe judges of our own acts ... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Anais Nin
#78. You curse. A lot. It's rather frightening. I've never met anyone who curses as much as you, and still manages to look sexy and innocent while doing it. Half the time, I find myself wanting to kiss that pretty mouth clean.
Cecilia Robert
#79. If only we actually were in Harry Potter. I'd totally Crucio her ass. Yeah, that's right, I'd use one of the Unforgivable Curses. Come at me, Ministry of Magic.
R.S. Grey
#81. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life - whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#82. He follows my eyes and curses, then slides his hands beneath my legs and back. "What are you doing?"
"Picking you up so we can run!"
"Don't be daft, my hand is broken, not my feet!"
"Right, that was stupid. Stupid.
Kiersten White
#83. Curses invoke evil, and the origin of all evil is demonic. When curses are spoken with true perfidy, especially if there is a blood relationship between the one who casts
John Harker
#84. The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
Aleksandar Hemon
#85. Especially given the severity of some of her curses. God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey if she had her way. (Braden)
Kinley MacGregor
#86. A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.
Malcolm X
#87. Sir, I can use profanity in more than a thousand languages, some having curses that will addle an egg at a hundred paces.
Robert A. Heinlein
#88. O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.
Christian Scriver
#89. People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
Christian Louboutin
#90. One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.
Cassandra Clare
#91. How could Belle, a lonely little bookworm of a country girl, ever come from someone so great that she meted out curses and blessings like candy and then took over an entire castle with her presence?
Liz Braswell
#92. All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
Henry Adams
#93. Cook," the historian Bernard Smith speculates, "increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the benefits of European civilization.
Tony Horwitz
#94. At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
Graham Nelson
#95. It was another one of her father's curses:I'll make you into a freak and not let you tell anyone.
Francine Pascal
#96. Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.
E. M. Forster
#97. Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.
Sam Storms
#98. We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.
Maria Edgeworth
#99. Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
Anne Rice
