Bitterest Quotes
48 quotes by 43 authors
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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
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
— Walter Savage Landor
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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
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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
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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
— Therese of Lisieux
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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
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Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
— Matsuo Basho
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The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.
— Michael Stuhlbarg
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
— Baltasar Gracian
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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
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
— Boethius
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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
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That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
— George Eliot
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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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