I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.
O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!
Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
Say the truth even if it may be bitter.
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.
I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.
I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.
Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.
I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.