Quotes About Bitter

The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.

Don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

No, you never do start arguments, do you, with your cold looks an' your bitter tongue! You just freeze everyone up an'—an' despise everything that isn't up to your standard. It's—it's unfair and horrible! Perhaps that's what you want me always to feel. Perhaps you're sorry you ever bothered to marry me!

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

The problem is, hope is the thing that can't be reined in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It's a blessing and curse.

Dining out meant shepherd's pie and bitter at the Anchor, Bankside. The Anchor was a little sooty brick Georgian pub on the Embankment.

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the look he gave her seemed to reveal the depths of his lustful, longing, bitter soul. "Good-bye, Miss Fielding," he said hoarsely.

I have to listen to my heart," Helen said quietly. That elicited a bitter scrape of laughter, "The downfall of every woman since Eve has begun with those exact words.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

And the reason you've never heard of my favorite drink is barbecue you're probably an uptight coffeehouse, double-espresso, no-sugar kind of guy? I'm miserably transparent, huh? No. I'm a coffee psychic. You have that bitter double-espresso look about you. But today you're joining up with the masses and getting a Coolatta.

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

A kiss is sweet; who dares deny it? But when it is sold, it becomes bitterer than hellebore

most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness...

He ordered a cup of tea and two biscuits for five pence and thought of nothing.—Oh, but that's impossible.—It's not possible to think of nothing. Certainly it was unprofessional of Fred, who was paid by the university to use his mind, and unwise of him as a lover, but there it was, he was occupied with bitter sensations, giving way to stupefaction, then to emptiness.

The British habit of taking quinine as a prophylactic precaution against malaria developed into the evening "gin and tonic"—the gin being considered necessary to make the bitter-tasting quinine in the tonic water palatable.

and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.