plague quotes

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

- Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior Burton
Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.1, section 2, member 4, subsection 7.

That it is at least as difficult to staya moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignityand rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed inthe most unlikely constitutions; is a fact as firmlyestablished by experience as that we human creatures breathe an atmosphere.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Little Dorrit, bk.2, ch.13.

Ay, a plague on't, My conscience fools my wit!

- Ben Jonson
  Volpone, act 2, sc.7.

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

-Thomas Nashe
  Summer's Last Will and Testament.

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry, 3 Sep.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

- George Bernard Shaw
  The Devil to DonJuan. Man and Superman, act 3.