Alas Quotes

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.

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.

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, time stays, we go.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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, 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.

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

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.