Bitterness Quote by Olaf Stapledon

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“They were charming and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife…

— Lemony Snicket

“Thus, we tend to think of Us as noble, loyal, and composed of distinctive individuals whose failings are due to circumstance. Thems, in contrast,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only…

— George Bernard Shaw

“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory,…

— Charles Bukowski

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive, we were not free, merely licensed, we were not compassionate, we were polite,…

— Toni Morrison

“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,”

— Sir Hall Caine

“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march…

— E.M. Forster

“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.”

— Thomas Sowell

“There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others…

— Charlotte Brontë

“quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never…

— Helen Rappaport