Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings! — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom. — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of… — James O'Donnell Bennett Copy Share Image
I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot… — John Donne Copy Share Image
There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps,… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
