Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one. — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry,… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably.… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves,… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You're damaged beyond repair that even if I wanted to fix you I couldn't.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot. — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image