One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
