Bitter

Famous quotes containing the word bitter:

“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin.... Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“The tears I shed
weren’t bitter things,
so ice-floes in spring
touched by the sun,
show colour of flowers.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:7.