Bitterest Quotes

48 quotes by 43 authors

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that… — Pearl S. Buck
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone. — Walter Savage Landor
Every morning, even in the bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last… — Kateri Tekakwitha
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet. — Therese of Lisieux
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world? — Matsuo Basho
The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie. — Michael Stuhlbarg
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. — Aristotle
Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all. — Tony Hancock
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies… — W. Somerset Maugham
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies. — Baltasar Gracian
The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have… — George Jean Nathan
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. — Boethius
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. — Antonio Machado
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. — George Eliot
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal… — John Dos Passos

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