The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Herbert Read

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France

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

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Woodrow Wilson

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

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
Garet Garrett

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
Sima Qian

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

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm

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

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

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
Lane Kirkland

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
Clay Aiken

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Lucretius

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
Jo Stafford

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
Maurice Jarre

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
Joan Crawford