Famous quotes containing the words corrupted, blood and/or plague:
“A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)
“The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)