Alas Quotes

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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, time stays, we go.

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

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

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.

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

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.

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, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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

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.

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.

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

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