Top Alas Quotes
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.
E. M. Forster
Alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
Pola Negri
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.
James L. Buckley
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?
Algernon H. Blackwood
Laurence Sterne 
Henry Austin Dobson 
E. M. Forster 
Aeschylus 
Jane Grey 
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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.
E. M. Forster 
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Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
Pola Negri
61% of people like this quote
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.
James L. Buckley
57% of people like this quote
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?
Algernon H. Blackwood
56% of people like this quote
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh
55% of people like this quote
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.
Titus Maccius Plautus
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The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
Sargent Shriver
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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Jean Rostand
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Henry David ThoreauWilliam ShakespeareOscar WildeGilbert K. Chesterton Sophocles OvidAlbert CamusDavid Herbert Lawrence AeschylusOliver Wendell HolmesE. M. ForsterPierre CorneilleMiguel De CervantesSamuel Taylor ColeridgeJean Rostand
Mary AstellVincent Van GoghJohn McCarthySargent ShriverTitus Maccius PlautusSydney SmithLaurence SterneJudy CollinsErica JongBarbara AmielJames L. BuckleyAdam WeishauptClaude DebussyWilliam WycherleyNguyen Cao Ky
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