Quotes About Bitter

Peace without truth is nothing but an illusion – a deceptive misguidance which generates opportunities and problems to chew the sweet and bitter tastes of evil respectively.

At certain revolutions all the damn'dAre brought: and feel by turns the bitter changeOf fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.

By his own bitter experience, Solomon learned the emptiness of a life that seeks in earthly things its highest good.

According to then current laws of war, the besieged could make terms if they surrendered, but not if they forced a siege to its bitter end, so presumably Charles felt no compunctions.

We have a bitter power who laugh at pain, Who laugh and laugh -- for tears are shed in vain.

When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasfemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

Il a suffi, il a presque suffi, un jour de mai où il faisait trop chaud, de l'inopportune conjonction d'un text dont tu avais perdu le fil, d'un bol de Nescafé au goût soudain trop amer [...]

An acrimonious dispute between Leslie and Buckingham caused the King to remark to the Lord Talbot somewhat bitterly that although he could not get Leslie's horse to stand by him against the enemy, it seemed that he could not get rid of them now, when he had a mind to it.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

All men speak in bitter disapproval of the Devil, but they do it reverently, not flippantly; but Father Adolf's way was very different; he called him by every name he could lay his tongue to, and it made everyone shudder that heard him; and often he would even speak of him scornfully and scoffingly; then the people crossed themselves and went quickly out of his presence, fearing that something fearful might happen.

In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity.

There's an east wind coming, Watson." "I think not, Holmes. It is very warm." "Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

Beaumarchais sighed, consumed by his own labors, "politics only rewards success. Best efforts earn only a bitter smile.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),...

Hice la amarga reflexión de que quedábamos 13. Uno más que los que tuvo Fidel tras el desembarco del 'Granma'... Pero no era el mismo jefe." --Ernesto Guevara

I'm loyal to my Clan, Lionpaw told himself. I shouldn't have to prove it. But still, the bitter taste of his lie stung in his throat.

Lust is a sprightly servant, Gallant where wines are poured; Love is a bitter master, Love is an iron lord.

I do not have any regrets of having joined politics. Though the experience was bitter, even that taught me a lot of things. Only after I entered politics did I realise what it is.

In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn't ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.

In politics, as in love, opposites attract, and the misunderstandings that ensue tend to be as bitter and, as in love, as equally terminal.

It tasted as beer had always tasted the few times she'd drunk it, like brown autumn leaves.

Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism.

Never use an aluminum pot, pan, or utensil when cooking tomatoes - or any other soft metal items for that matter. The acidity in the tomato doesn't do well with them; they create a chemical reaction that can turn cooked tomatoes bitter and fade the color, and the food will absorb some of the aluminum!