Alas How Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a… — Silas Weir Mitchell
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget! — Alfred de Musset
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely… — Charles Lamb
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! — Lord Byron
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find… — Amy Lowell
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? — Jean-Baptiste Say
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and… — Francis Pharcellus Church
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks. — Ovid
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the… — Anthony of Padua
Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows… — William Wordsworth
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And… — Euripides
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles
Alas, how love can trifle with itself! — William Shakespeare
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
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! — Ovid
Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases! — Louise Colet
A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The… — Charles Henry Mackintosh
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! — Henry David Thoreau
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? — Dante Alighieri
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life… — George MacDonald

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