Speck Plague

Famous quotes containing the words speck and/or plague:

“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“A plague o’ these pickle herring!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)