Best Alas Thoughts
349 Alas quotes by 262 unique authors
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
— William Shakespeare
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
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A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come…
— William C. Bryant
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
— Charles Lamb
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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
— Ovid
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
— Alexander Pope
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
— Alexander Pope
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
— Alexander Pope
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Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
— Hector Berlioz
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My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to…
— Claude Monet
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Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
— Claudius Claudianus
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Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
— Claudius Claudianus
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Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
— Camille Pissarro
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Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because…
— Shimon Peres
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Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about.…
— Pierre-Jean de Beranger
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Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.
— Samuel Morse
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Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!
— Louise Colet
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The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy…
— Pythagoras
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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature…
— Pythagoras
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