Bitter Quotes · Page 33

“We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.”

— Debbie Macomber

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

— Denis Diderot

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

— Helen Hunt

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

— Richard Sibbes

I don't want to be that bitter dude. Everyone finds their own special experience with the city no matter what.

— Brian Degraw

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

— Tobias Wolff

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

— Greta Garbo

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

— Danny Strong

It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry…

— Cody Johnson

The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly…So thank you…

— Colin Powell

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond…

— George Eliot

“We’ve repeated history a few times and it seems to be getting worse before it gets better. And it will get better.…

— Richie Norton

“It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Back then I recall yelling ugly things like, “Don’t do it”! at the happy couple. Yes, that was me. Obnoxious jilted girl,…

— Paula Heller Garland

I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say…

— Bill Bailey

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of…

— Edmund Spenser

Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see…

— Anonymous

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious,…

— Peter Abelard

Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him…

— William Shakespeare

I'm not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter…

— Tom Colicchio

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic…

— Sylvia Plath

The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,…

— Bix Beiderbecke

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the…

— Dale Carnegie

“It is not bitter to be better to the boss rather than butter up a boss which is, in reality, bitter.”

— Dr Sivakumar Gowder

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

— Jewish Proverb

“and although the end is justified by the means, it still leaves a bitter aftertaste.”

— R.R. Haywood

And if you are in love, then you are the lucky one. Because most of us are bitter over someone.

— Anonymous

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

— Benjamin Hoff

Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

— Leon Brown

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

— Amy Carmichael

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Black and bitter and never quite right.”

— Jodi Picoult

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

— John Milton

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

— Anonymous

The sweet chocolate that you ever gave is the bitterest shit I ever took.

— Aldyna Threesya

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

— Ovid

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

— Sima Qian

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

— Timothy Noah

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

— Walt Whitman

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

— Zelda Fitzgerald