Alas Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

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, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

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.

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

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

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, I think I am becoming a god.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?