What good it would have done me at that time to have been…

Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I…

— Anonymous

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”

— Tahir Shah

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

— Jan Peter Balkenende

“But she did not say it, she kept rigidly silent. Ostrakova had already sworn to herself that she would restrain both her quick temper…

— John le Carré

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

— Tahir Shah

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose.…

— Fannie Hurst

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have…

— David Ogilvy

“true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.”

— David Halberstam

“Bitter experience has taught me that you don't engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.”

— Alexis Hall

If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The…

— Barbara Johnson

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment…

— Anonymous

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…

— Anton Chekhov

“Down to the closest friend every man is a potential murderer. Often it wasn't necessary to bring out the gun or the lasso or…

— Henry Miller