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