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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Curse

A curse is like a cloud—it passes.
—Philip James Bailey

Curse away!
And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb
The Arabs have,—“Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost.” Edward Bulwer-Lytton

An orphan’s curse would drag to Hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is a curse in a dead man’s eye!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Foul and cursed as if some holy temple had been robbed.
—John Ford

Curses are like processions; they return to the place from which they came.
—Giovanni Ruffini

Curst, and shrewd as Socrates’ Xantippe.
—William Shakespeare

Cursing like a very drab.
—William Shakespeare