Quotes About The Bubonic Plague

#1. I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

Jeri Ryan

#2. If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

Barbara Amiel

#3. Jews, there are bound to be misconceptions. During the Middle Ages, they were even accused of causing the bubonic plague by poisoning wells in European towns, but that is simply not true.

C.H. Dalton

#4. Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

Giovanni Trapattoni

#5. Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

Alan Huffman

#6. Avoid doctors like the bubonic plague. On some level I know it's ignorant, but I think the stress of knowing you have a fatal disease kills faster than the disease itself.

Emma Chase

#7. The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Wilhelm Reich

#8. To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Alice Walker

#9. Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.

Eric Weiner

#10. They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow

Lauren Beukes

#11. If I had a baseball bat and bulldozer, maybe I could stop him. But without real weapons, without a pistol, a man-eating lion, and a vial of bubonic plague, I had zero change of competing against him.

Sherman Alexie

#12. My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

Nate Ruess

#13. The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

Tony Kornheiser

#14. Too fucking late for sorry, innit? I hope he catches bubonic plague and dies in slow fucking agony the day before they legalise euthanasia and then I'm gonna go and learn Riverdance and I don't care how fucking long it takes cos I wanna do it on his grave.

Richard Rider

#15. Dioscorides, an expert on medicinal plants, had ample material on which to base a pioneering treatise on bubonic plague.

Stacy Schiff

#16. I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#17. The poor are no less rational than anyone else - quite the contrary. Precisely because they have so little, we often find them putting much careful thought into their choices:They have to be sophisticated economists just to survive.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#18. Bubonic plague is 'natural,' I snapped back. Doesn't mean it's good for you.

Rosamund Lupton

#19. I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Russell Crowe

#20. The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed.

Salman Rushdie

#21. God, I fucking love, love, love you. he says against my lips

Jodi Ellen Malpas