All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that`s about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
Ray Winstone
It has been said that every man must properly pay the fiddler. Alas, in my case, it happened that an entire symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
John Barrymore
[When asked if he received any special privileges upon becoming a knight]: Alas, no. In the old days I believe you at least got a couple of horses out of the deal.
Rex Harrison
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.
Judy Collins
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless it does - what -alas!- it too often does, hardens you and makes you sour and narrow and skeptical.
Alberto Adrianzen
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.
Claude Debussy
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!
Alan Sandals
King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country`s history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!
Antonia Fraser
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.
Amien Rais
I think the violence will continue. Alas, we have learned not to believe that deliverance is around the corner. We are at the end of year three of this war and every hope that the violence has subside, has been betrayed.
Antony Dugdale
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.
Allison Hanna
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.
John McCarthy
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I`d pay a lot to see them, but alas, I`m fully booked elsewhere.
Alaina Walker
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
