A Quote by O. Henry

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

O. Henry

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O. Henry
American - Writer
September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

James St. James

I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.

Jon Richardson

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

Frederick Chiluba

White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

George Orwell

I don't see the reason for sugar coating anything.

Damon Dash

I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.

Chaz Bundick

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

Richard Brautigan

Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes there is no sugar-coating it. Sometimes you have to challenge people's belief systems in a progressive way.

Viola Davis

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

Jonathan Haidt

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.

Sharad Pawar

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

There's no sugar coating it: drought isn't sexy. Nobody wants to hear about it, and many of us who live an urban existence don't know much about it, if we're honest.

Melissa Leong

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

Jan Struther

I can't be someone that I'm not. And people can spot when someone's being fake, when somebody's not being real, when somebody's sugar-coating stuff. People don't like that.

Chris Arreola

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