cursing quotes

  • Icall heavenand earthtorecord thisdayagainst you, that Ihaveset before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Deuteronomy 30:19.

  • Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Dotha fountainsend forthatthesameplacesweet water and bitter?

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    James 3:10^11.

  • Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in italthough I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
      Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald,15 Sep.

  • 'Good-morning; good-morning!'the General said When we met him last weekon our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. 'He's a cheery old card,'grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

    - Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
      'The General'.

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