Canker Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! — Lord Byron
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… — Thomas Jefferson
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be… — Horace Mann
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. — Charles Baudelaire
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment,… — Samuel Johnson
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker… — Hannah More
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. — Pietro Metastasio
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. — William Shakespeare
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice
You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else. — Tamora Pierce
Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom! — William Shakespeare
O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! — William Shakespeare
We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more… — Gordon B. Hinckley
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. — Sadegh Hedayat
Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. — Jacqueline Carey
When love becomes a canker sores are healed burn time | — Mak_786

Who Wrote These Canker Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Canker Quotes as follows: