Plagues

Famous quotes containing the word plagues:

    And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
    Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.
    Daniel Defoe (1659–1731)

    There they are at last, Miss Rutledge. The will-o-the-wisps with plagues of fortune. San Francisco, the latest newborn of a great republic.
    Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    I don’t believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
    Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962)