--- title: "3 Bees Quotes By Vita Sackville-West" description: "3 Bees quotes by Vita Sackville-West. Plus more from Vita Sackville-West and more Bees sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours_1500353.jpg" --- > [Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours-for-every-bee-becomes-a/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours_1500353.jpg) > [Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/forget-not-bees-in-winter-though-they-sleep/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_forget-not-bees-in-winter-though-they-sl_1527957.jpg) > [For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-bees-are-captious-folk-and-quick-to-turn-against-the-lubber-s/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_for-bees-are-captious-folk-and-quick-to_2908953.jpg) ## Other authors on Bees - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-herbert-37751.jpg) George Herbert 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/george-herbert/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sue-monk-kidd-87785.jpg) Sue Monk Kidd 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/sue-monk-kidd/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-emily-dickinson-33058.jpg) Emily Dickinson 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/emily-dickinson/) - [Sue Hubbell 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/sue-hubbell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-jay-ebben-30738.jpg) Jay Ebben 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/jay-ebben/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-keats-51711.jpg) John Keats 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/john-keats/) - [Matshona Dhliwayo 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/matshona-dhliwayo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marcus-aurelius-63282.jpg) Marcus Aurelius 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/marcus-aurelius/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/henry-david-thoreau/) ## More by Vita Sackville-West > [For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-a-young-man-to-start-his-career-with-a-love-affair-with-an-older/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-cannot-bear-that-you-should-think-me-faithful-when-i-am-untrue/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling Virginia', and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/this-is-how-you-must-imagine-your-letters-arriving-and-me-carrying/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [“There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and again, Then, at such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/there-had-been-no-moments-when-she-could-differentiate-and-say-then/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/women-like-men-ought-to-have-their-youth-so-glutted-with-freedom-they/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/the-farmer-and-the-gardener-are-both-busy-the-gardener-perhaps-the/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-the-last-40-years-of-my-life-i-have-broken-my-back-my-fingernails/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/successful-gardening-is-not-necessarily-a-question-of-wealth-it-is-a/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/what-is-beautiful-is-good-and-who-is-good-will-soon-be-beautiful/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/my-garden-all-is-overblown-with-roses-my-spirit-all-is-overblown-with/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/nothing-shows-up-the-difference-between-the-things-said-or-read-so/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/how-poor-and-disheartening-a-thing-is-experience-compared-with-hope/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [ “You angel, you have written. \[...\] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/you-angel-you-have-written-please-in-all-this-muddle-of-life-continue/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-miss-you-even-more-than-i-could-have-believed-and-i-was-prepared-to/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-like-muddling-things-up-and-if-a-herb-looks-nice-in-a-border-then/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/vita-sackville-west/#itemlist", "name": "3 Bees Quotes By Vita Sackville-West", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Vita Sackville-West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours-for-every-bee-becomes-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours_1500353.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours_1500353.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours_1500353.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head…” — Vita Sackville-West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Vita Sackville-West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/forget-not-bees-in-winter-though-they-sleep/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_forget-not-bees-in-winter-though-they-sl_1527957.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_forget-not-bees-in-winter-though-they-sl_1527957.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_forget-not-bees-in-winter-though-they-sl_1527957.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.” — Vita Sackville-West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Vita Sackville-West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-bees-are-captious-folk-and-quick-to-turn-against-the-lubber-s/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_for-bees-are-captious-folk-and-quick-to_2908953.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_for-bees-are-captious-folk-and-quick-to_2908953.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_for-bees-are-captious-folk-and-quick-to_2908953.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.” — Vita Sackville-West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/vita-sackville-west/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/vita-sackville-west/", "name": "Bees Quotes by Vita Sackville-West", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/vita-sackville-west/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/vita-sackville-west-4366_bees_everywhere-bees-go-racing-with-the-hours_1500353.jpg" }, "description": "3 Bees quotes by Vita Sackville-West. 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