Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.205^6.

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.But put forththinehand now, and touchhisboneand his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 2:4^5.

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him,Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 2:8^9.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes10:20.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of thegreat and dreadfuldayof the L: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth a curse.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDMalachi 4:5^6.

Ye have heard that it hath been said,Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hatethineenemy.But Isayuntoyou,Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to themthat hate you, and pray for them whichdespitefully use you, and persecute you.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:43^4.

My curse upon your whunstane hearts, Ye Enbrugh Gentry! The tythe o' what ye waste at cartes Wad stow'd his pantry!

-Burns, Robert
  'To W. Simpson, Ochiltree', stanza 4, referring to the poet Robert Fergusson, who died a pauper in the Edinburgh bedlam in1774 at the age of 24, and whom Burns considered 'my elder brother in misfortune, by far my elder brother in the muse'.

   Round and round the circle Completing the charm So the knot be unknotted The cross be uncrossed The crooked be made straight And the curse be ended.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Family Reunion, pt.2, sc.3.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

-Foot, Michael Mackintosh
  Of  Aneurin Bevan.  Aneurin Bevan1897^1945, vol.1.

Fond Pride of Dress is sure an Empty Curse; E'er Fancy you consult, consult your Purse.

-Franklin, Benjamin
Poor Richard Improved, May.

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  Letter to Edward Garnett, 3  Jul, after the rejection of Sons and Lovers by Heinemann.

The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great† The effect of travel ona manwhoseheart isintheright place isthatthemind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resourcesöthere isgreater presence of mind† The sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God: it proves a tonic to the system, and actually a blessing. No one can trulyappreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion.

-Livingstone, Dr David
Collected in H  Waller (ed)  The Last  Journals of David Livingstone in Central  Africa; continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi (1874).

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

-Massinger, Philip
  The Great Duke of Florence, act1, sc.1.

I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Black Spring,'Third or Fourth Day of Spring'.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

-Muir, Edwin
  Scott and Scotland, introduction.

   And now the curse has come upon us, because I have personally met in the streets of Ireland persons who are clearly out of Synge's plays. They talk and dress like that, and damn the drink they'll swally but the mug of porter in the long nights after Samhain.

-Cruise
  The Best of Myles.

May the hard hand of a vexatious need Oppress and grind you; till at last you find The curse of disobedience all your portion.

-Otway,Thomas
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Letter toJames Joyce,7^8 Jun.

The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart That got the Captain finally on his back And took the red red vitals of his heart And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack.

-Ransom,John Crowe
  Chills and Fever,'Captain Carpenter'.

The perpetual hunger to be beautifuland thatthirsttobe loved which is the real curse of Eve.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  The Left Bank,'Illusion'.