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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Bitter Quotes

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise…
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

– Maya Angelou

Lucy van Pelt: Look at this way Charlie Brown. These are your bitter days. These are your days of hardship and struggle. But if you’ll just hold your head up high and keep on fighting someday you’ll triumph!
Charlie Brown: Gee, do you really think so Lucy?
Lucy van Pelt: Frankly, no!

– Charles M. Schulz

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

– George Gissing

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

– Herbert Read

If you do things when you’re burned out, it’ll make you bitter.

– Juliana Hatfield

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

– Jewel

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

– Arthur Rimbaud

I love playing the bitter guy.

– Bill Engvall

I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that’s how it comes out.

– Bill Hicks

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

– Chanakya

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans – and there were many such bitter policy disputes – the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

– Allen Weinstein

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

– Auberon Herbert

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

– Brody Armstrong

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

– Albert Camus

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

– Elia Kazan

David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

– The Bible

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

– Francis Bacon

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

– Charles Dudley Warner

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

– Dante Alighieri

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

– Damon Galgut

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don’t want to do it yet. I want to wait until we’re 45 and we’re bitter and broke. Then, we’ll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

– Gene Ween

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.

– Peter Dinklage

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

– Christoph Martin Wieland

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

– Nicole Kidman

I was briefly bitter.

– Margot Kidder

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

– Martha Gellhorn

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

– Jean Ingelow

When rock came in, I wasn’t bitter about it. I was puzzled.

– Jo Stafford

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

– Lady Gaga

There are times when I’m watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

– Jeff Garcia

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