Bitter Quotes

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

You've got to take the sour with the bitter.