Alas Quotes

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

Alas, time stays, we go.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.