Bitter
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Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.
Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.
Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.
Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.
To make bitter.
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Bitter Quotations
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil Gibran
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert Camus
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
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
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
Bill Hicks
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
William Penn
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
Jimmy Carter
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore De Balzac
If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
Richard Pryor
It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
Greta Garbo
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Bitter Translations
bitter in Afrikaans is bitter
bitter in Danish is bitter
bitter in Dutch is bitter
bitter in German is bitter
bitter in Italian is birra, acerbo, amaro
bitter in Latin is acerbus
bitter in Norwegian is sur, bitter
bitter in Portuguese is amargo
bitter in Spanish is amargar, agrio, amargo
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