curses quotes

For what can I increase Or multiply, but curses on my head?

-John Milton
   Adam's lament. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.731^2.

When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?

- Charles Hamilton Sorley
Marlborough and Other Poems,'A Sonnet' (published1916).

   Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

- Robert Southey
  The Curse of Kehama, motto.