Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds.… — Eknath Easwaran
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies… — John Oliver Killens
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. — Diane Ackerman
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. — Albert Einstein
No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough… — John Brown
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried… — Dale Carnegie
Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand,… — Tommy Franks
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother… — Alexander the Great
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and… — James Elroy Flecker
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted… — Woodrow Wilson
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that… — Teresa of Avila
Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end. — Douglas Adams
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which… — Robert Browning
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding… — George Bernard Shaw
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But… — Paulo Coelho
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. — Samuel Johnson
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits. — Pindar
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and… — William Butler Yeats
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. — Lewis B. Smedes
I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived. — Osama bin Laden

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