Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

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

“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke—smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)