(237 quotes found)
“There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
Erich Fromm
“Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it”
Charles Dudley Warner
“Take the bitter with the sweet”
American Proverb
“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Oh Sweet Bitterness!I will soothe you and heal youI will bring you rosesI too have been covered with thorns.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.”
Charles Darwin
“It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.”
Charles Kuralt
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
Edith Cavell
