Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image