Alas Quotes

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.