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Alas Quotes by Voltaire
- Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
- Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks…
More Alas Quotes
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus
- But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For… — William Shakespeare
- I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the… — Cassandra Clare
- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
- Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! — William Shakespeare
- In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points… — Tom Robbins
- Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today. — Thomas Gray