Alas Quotes

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

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

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

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

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

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

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

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

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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