Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

— Thomas Hobbes

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

— Thomas Jefferson

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve…

— Richard Jefferies

“The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make…

— Gume Laurel III

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

The Bitterest Truth is better than sweetest Lie.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.”

— Philip Jenkins

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

— George Eliot

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform,…

— Pearl S. Buck

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

— Anonymous

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not…

— George Jean Nathan

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

— Margaret Deland

“The bitterest truth was always better than the sweetest lie.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“...he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.”

— Nick Hornby