Best Bitter Quotes

#1. I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Morrissey

#2. On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective

Aporva Kala

#3. It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Greta Garbo

#4. Acquaintance; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked.

William Butler Yeats

#5. You don't want to hear what I have to say. You only want me to say what you want to hear. But trust me when I tell you that you won't ever get all you want. You'll just grow frustrated and bitter, and you'll end up doing things that will kill the best part of you.

William Lashner

#6. There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

Albert Camus

#7. All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

Myrtle Reed

#8. Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#9. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Tahir Shah

#10. The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Jacob Epstein

#11. Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

Walter Matthau

#12. Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.

Madonna Ciccone

#13. Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection..

Paula Wall

#15. As an adult, I know about life and death. I know that good people can die too soon and bad ones can live too long. I know that life's not fair, and you take the bitter with the sweet and balance it all as best you can.

Elsie Hillman-Gordon

#16. I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Merle Travis

#17. At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#18. If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#19. The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.

Emil M. Cioran

#20. I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#21. The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy.

Ellis Peters

#22. I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

Larry Doby

#23. The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

Adam Gopnik

#24. I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

George Grosz

#25. We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for 'our own' the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.

Margaret E. Sangster

#26. The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#27. He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

Donna Lynn Hope

#28. The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!

Noel Coward Sir