Blight Quotes

53 quotes by 51 authors

A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great… — Winston Churchill
Love denied blights the soul we owe to God. — William Shakespeare
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it — George Bernard Shaw
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's… — Bonnie Raitt
I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the… — Isak Dinesen
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly… — William Blake
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking… — Stewart Udall
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Our blight is ideÂoloÂgies â€” they are the long-expected Antichrist! — Carl Jung
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. — Ingrid Newkirk
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in… — Charles Lamb
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning"… — Roger Scruton
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? — Ellen Lupton
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. — John Millington Synge
There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty!… — Leon Uris
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy. — Thomas Love Peacock
It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most… — Kurtwood Smith
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment… — Sonya Hartnett
Racism is a blight on the human conscience — Nelson Mandela
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not… — A B Simpson

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