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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Bitter
 
  Bitter as the suffering of life.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Bitter as gall.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Bitter as chestnut husks.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  3
  Bitter as self-sacrifice.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
  Bitter, like a day of mourning.
            —Joseph Conrad		  5
  More bitter than the sea.
            —Joseph Conrad		  6
  Bitter as a nausea.
            —Gabriel D’Annunzio		  7
  Their earthly days were bitter, like the oil-tree.
            —Thomas De Quincey		  8
  Love bitter as Despair.
            —Lord De Tabley		  9
  Bitter as Penthea’s curse.
            —John Ford		  10
  Bitter as truth.
            —Victor Hugo		  11
  Bitter in the mouth as a page torn out of Ecclesiastes.
            —James Huneker		  12
  Bitter as home-brewed ale.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  13
  Bitter as hemlock.
            —Fitz-James O’Brien		  14
  Bitter as coloquintida.
            —William Shakespeare		  15
  Bitter to me as death.
            —William Shakespeare		  16
  Bitter as fell.
            —Edmund Spenser		  17
  Bitter as a tear.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  18
  Bitter as harsh-lipped spring.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  19
  Bitter as the breaking down of love.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  20
  Thy speech is bitterer than the sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  21
  Bitter like blood.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  22
                Her heart within
Burnt bitter like an aftertaste of sin
To one whose memory drinks and loathes the lee
Of shame or sorrow deeper than the sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  23
  And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands.
            —Old Testament		  24
  Bitter as wormwood.
            —Old Testament		  25
  Bitterer than Sardinian herbage.
            —Virgil		  26
 
 
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