"Bitterness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... detecting the note of bitterness an his voice as he uttered these words. She was aggrieved that he should think that his rough appearance would make any difference to her. And yet she understood his feelings. His sensitiveness would make him most unwilling to ...
— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody
... certainly very entertaining and instructive; but, in my judgment, his sentiments upon many points, and more especially his mode of expression, are unwise and uncharitable. After all, are not most of the things shown up with so much bitterness by him mere national foibles, parallels to which every people has and must of ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various
... hours men and women have cursed God and life, and thrown violently down and trampled under their feet what yet was left of life's blessings, in the fierce bitterness of despair. "This, or nothing!" the soul shrieks, in her frenzy. At just such points as these, men have plunged into intemperance and wild excess,—they have gone to be shot down in battle,—they have broken life, and thrown it away, like an empty goblet, and gone, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... of his despair. But he was angry as well as disappointed. There was he, suffering so unspeakably, and there was I, the pitiless cause of it all, so utterly impenetrable to all the artillery of his looks and words, so calmly cold and proud, he could not but feel some resentment; and with singular bitterness he began—"I certainly did not expect this, Miss Murray. I might say something about your past conduct, and the hopes you have led me to foster, but ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... so overwhelming;" returned the captain, with bitterness. "The gentleman has boarded the smuggler, and gone with la belle Barberie to examine ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper
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