virus quotes

If this is what virus pneumonia does to one, I really don't think I shall bother to have it again.

- Dame Gladys Cooper
Last words.

Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.

- Richard Wilbur
  'Pangloss's Song', from Candide.