Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death. — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love… — Wil McCarthy Copy Share Image
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed… — Diophantus Copy Share Image
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost? — Maria Gowen Brooks Copy Share Image
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day? — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image