Plague Quotes

Idleness is the great plague of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Laurie Garret’s The Coming Plague”

— Marc Cameron

We are a plague on the Earth.

— David Attenborough

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Terrorism is the plague of our time.”

— Anonymous

“Malnutrition is a plague in the elderly.”

— Steven Magee

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

— Henry Rollins

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

— George Sand

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

— William Shakespeare

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

— Sandra Cisneros

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

— William Shakespeare

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

— Thomas Nashe

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

— Maya Angelou

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

— William Shakespeare

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

— Stephen L. Carter

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

— Albert Camus

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has…

— Margaret Thatcher

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

— Aldous Huxley

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and…

— Herb Kohl

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority…

— Larry Kramer

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if…

— Bradley Cooper

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

— Stephenie Meyer

“When those who lived through the epidemic tried to describe it, they talked about the sudden eerie quiet.”

— Jeanette Keith

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

— Daniel Berrigan

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard…

— John H. McWhorter

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for…

— Kofi Annan

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague;…

— Lord Chesterfield

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four…

— Paul O'Grady

“In the countryside, an outbreak of plague usually lasted about six months and then faded away. In cities and other places where…

— Phyllis Goldstein

In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...…

— Marshall McLuhan

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought…

— Albert Einstein

On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have…

— Klaus Kinski

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and…

— Anonymous

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the…

— John McCain

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys…

— Erica Jong

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that…

— Thomas Szasz

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant,…

— Albert Camus

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the…

— John McCain

The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but…

— Christopher Hitchens

At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything…

— Carolyn Hart