Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

“O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through
another man’s eyes!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses’ instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)