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Bitter Quotes - Page 8

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Homer (1760). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

"Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.

For this relief, much thanks

'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 8

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.438

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

"Epidicus". Book by Plautus, V, 2, 52; in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922),

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc