Bitter Quotes

• Thank you to the stellar collection of photographers, designers, editors, musicians, costumers, painters, researchers, electricians and craftspeople who without whom I'd just be a bitter man with a lot of opinions

  

  David Fincher
  • Bitter

• 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
  • Forever
  • Impossible
  • Recovery

• The last thing I want to appear is remotely jaded or bitter, which it could come across the wrong way.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Bitter

• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

  

  David Leavitt
  • Writing
  • Relationship
  • Bitter

• 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
  • Game
  • Bitter

• Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Doubt
  • Bitter
  • Presidential

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

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • End
  • Bitter
  • Rather

• 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
  • Good
  • Best
  • Portrait

• With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.

  

  Jane March
  • Bad
  • Bitter

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

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Bitter

• Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary task is to organize the masses and lead them in the struggle for economic freedom.

  

  M. N. Roy
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Life
  • Good
  • Earth

• Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Breaths
  • Foe
  • Lays

• I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Game
  • End

• One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
  • Bitter

• Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Night
  • Girl

• After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Music
  • Bitter

• A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Strong

• Obviously, Ian Paisley and I were regarded as very bitter opponents. When we decided in March 2007 to govern together, both of us understood that we weren't going to change our views but that we had to work with one another if we were to end the conflict and move forward.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Work
  • Together
  • March

• I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Career

• Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.

  

  Charlyne Yi
  • Heart
  • Broken
  • Bitter

• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Religious

• Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Believe
  • Sweet

• Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Lost
  • Focus
  • Positive

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