Alas Quotes
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.
Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.
Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.
The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.
Do you recall Fred Merriville?” She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?” “The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!
![Alas Quotes: "What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations652/What-is-true-in-psychology-is-alas-652858.jpg)
Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to a new place, Another life.
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.