Bitter

Famous quotes containing the word bitter:

“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Where had her sweetness gone?
What fanatics invent
In this blind bitter town,
Fantasy or incident
Not worth thinking of,
Put her in a rage.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)