Cursed Quotes - Page 5

• Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.

  William Shakespeare

  Golf, Hands, Holes

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.

  George W Truett

  Purple, People, Suffering

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• Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Years

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• To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

  Ariana Franklin

  Heart, Gold, Craving

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• In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.

  Ben Harper

  Blessed, Want, Worst

  Song: One Road to Freedom, Album: Fight for Your Mind, 1995

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• Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Giving, Receiving, Flattery

  Maria Edgeworth (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Blessed, Animal, Self

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.196, A&C Black

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• Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

  Chief Joseph

  Reputation

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• Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

  Ouida

  Angel, Passion, Rose

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Yet is there one more cursed than they all,
  That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
  Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
  Turning all love's delight to misery,
  Through fear of losing his felicity.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealousy, Heart, Monsters

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.14

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• Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Needs, Woods, Free Will

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• No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

  Lauren Kate

  Should Have, California, Bears

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.556, Delacorte Press

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• But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

  John Milton

  Son, Paradise, Able

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.576, Modern Library

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• Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

  Edmund Spenser

  War, Men, Flesh

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• The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

  Holly Black

  Arms, Matter, Remember

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  Karen Chance

  Fun, Beer, Night

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.241, Penguin

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• But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.

  Jean M. Auel

  Determination, Son, Men

  Jean M. Auel (2013). “The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves”, p.665, Bantam

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• I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Mind, Wish

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8126, Delphi Classics

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• Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

  John Selden

  Christian, Country, Hate

  John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.65

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• Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Writing, Ambition

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• You never fall in love with anyone the same way you fell in love with someone else. It's always different, every time, if you're lucky-or cursed-enough to have it happen more than once. But I've never been uncertain about love, not any of the times I found myself in it. Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

  Megan Hart

  Falling In Love, Real, Love Is

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• Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.

  William Osler

  Country, Attitude, Ignorance

  Sir William Osler (1963). “Aequanimitas, and other papers that have stood the test of time. [With an introd. by Paul Dudley White]”

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• I always win, I'm cursed to win.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Winning, I Always Win

  ANSA Interview, May 24, 2003.

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• The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Sin, Christ

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1850). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.32

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• When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what will come from it, and you will see that your insulter has become the cause of many benefits to you, not only in this age, but in that which is to come.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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