Famous quotes containing the word bitter:
“Unknown love
Is as bitter a thing
As the maiden-lily”
—Lady Otomo No Sakonoe (fl. 8th century)
“Their school a crowd, his master solitude;
Through Jonathan Swift’s dark grove he passed, and there
Plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through
another man’s eyes!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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