Bitter Quotes
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Tags: Conscience, Fault ✍ Author: Muhammad AliThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Tags: Education, Sweet ✍ Author: Maya AngelouChildren sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Tags: Children, Labours ✍ Author: Francis BaconBitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Tags: Experience, Great ✍ Author: Jan Peter BalkenendeOur most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Tags: Brothers, Mother ✍ Author: Honore de BalzacThere is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Tags: Friendship, Truth ✍ Author: George Washington CarverFamily quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
Tags: Enough, Family ✍ Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldTo die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Tags: Die, Idea ✍ Author: Erich FrommBecause the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
Tags: Cake, Sweeter ✍ Author: Lady GagaIt is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
Tags: Best, Country ✍ Author: Greta GarboThere are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.
Tags: Game, Times ✍ Author: Jeff GarciaAnd bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
Tags: Brother, Word ✍ Author: Jean IngelowI think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Tags: Country, Less ✍ Author: Walter IsaacsonTo be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
Tags: Police, State ✍ Author: Elia KazanSome people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
Tags: Birthday, Makes ✍ Author: Anne LamottIn the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Tags: Flowers, Wit ✍ Author: John LubbockIt's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Tags: Guns, Religion ✍ Author: Barack ObamaIt would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Tags: Church, Far ✍ Author: William PennWe wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Tags: Hope, Solitude ✍ Author: Salvatore QuasimodoI'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.
Tags: Married, Work ✍ Author: Mary Lynn RajskubVisit partners pages
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Tags: Adversity, Prosperity ✍ Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauI have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.
Tags: Bring, Memories ✍ Author: Kohei UchimuraLettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Tags: Fresh, Notice ✍ Author: Charles Dudley WarnerWorld's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Tags: Love, Pain ✍ Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAmsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
Tags: Nor, Seems ✍ Author: Julie BurchillI have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
Tags: Fate, Seen ✍ Author: Robert ByrdI have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
Tags: Life, Paris ✍ Author: Camille ClaudelWe swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Tags: Lie, Truth ✍ Author: Denis DiderotIt is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
Tags: Birthday, Present ✍ Author: Annie DillardThere is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
Tags: Once, Poor ✍ Author: Beth DittoIt would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Tags: Joke, Ourselves ✍ Author: Martha GellhornThat is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
Tags: Generous, Poverty ✍ Author: George GissingThe World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
Tags: Best, Light ✍ Author: Retief GoosenI don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
Tags: Cold, Mean ✍ Author: Bill HicksI was briefly bitter.
✍ Author: Margot KidderI don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.
Tags: Angry, May ✍ Author: Jason KilarWe must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
Tags: End, Rather ✍ Author: Lane KirklandA healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
Tags: Healthy, Party ✍ Author: Thomas E. MannI don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.
Tags: Great, Reality ✍ Author: Tim MinearA comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
Tags: Comedy, Sometimes ✍ Author: Mario MonicelliI just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.
Tags: Dark, Level ✍ Author: Martha PlimptonIf I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
Tags: Makes, Thought ✍ Author: Richard PryorBut, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Tags: Moon, Sun ✍ Author: Arthur RimbaudWhen rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
Tags: Puzzled, Rock ✍ Author: Jo StaffordI have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
Tags: Music, Sweet ✍ Author: Merle TravisThen as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.
Tags: Goals, Whatever ✍ Author: Allen WeinsteinThere is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Tags: Great, History ✍ Author: Woodrow Wilson