Quotes of: Bitterest Keyword

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.

Stephanie Courtney

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

The Greek Way

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl S. Buck

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

High Fidelity

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]

A Set Of Six

Don't cry over the shots you've missed; weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!

Daily Drive 365

The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.

Blind in Justice

The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction

Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.

Francois Fenelon

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Richard Jefferies

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored......

Abdolkarim Soroush

The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is n...

Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears