--- title: "11 Sweet flowers Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Sweet flowers quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Sweet flowers sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/german-proverb-11849_snakes_look-before-you-leap-for-snakes-among-sw_620278.jpg" --- > [“Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/german-proverb/look-before-you-leap-for-snakes-among-sweet-flowers-do-creep/) [German Proverb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/german-proverb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/german-proverb-11849_snakes_look-before-you-leap-for-snakes-among-sw_620278.jpg) > [Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/sweet-flowers-are-slow-and-weeds-make-haste/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/william-shakespeare-4_flower_sweet-flowers-are-slow-and-weeds-make-ha_3186407.jpg) > [For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucretius/for-thee-the-wonder-working-earth-puts-forth-sweet-flowers/) [Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucretius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53a/lucretius-1632_earth_for-thee-the-wonder-working-earth-puts-f_131240.png) > [Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/sweet-flowers-alone-can-say-what-passion-fears-revealing/) [Thomas Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92f/thomas-moore-3267_flower_sweet-flowers-alone-can-say-what-passion_1490423.png) > [War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-e-w-sherwood/war-is-a-most-uneconomical-foolish-poor-arrangement-a-bloody/) [M. E. W. Sherwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-e-w-sherwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a7/m-e-w-sherwood-26189_antiwar_war-is-a-most-uneconomical-foolish-poor_1058499.jpg) > [I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-clare/i-ne-er-was-struck-before-that-hour-with-love-so-sudden-and-so-sweet/) [John Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-clare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/john-clare-9982_faces_i-ne-er-was-struck-before-that-hour-with_40640.png) > [Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-gates-percival/sweet-flower-thou-tellest-how-hearts-as-pure-and-tender-as-thy-leaf/) [James Gates Percival](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-gates-percival/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80b/james-gates-percival-31127_flower_sweet-flower-thou-tellest-how-hearts-as_952462.png) > [The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/the-forties-and-fifties-were-years-of-high-poet-incense-the-language/) [Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a6/gwendolyn-brooks-5624_fire_the-forties-and-fifties-were-years-of-hi_426094.png) > [Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimi-hendrix/happiness-is-within-you-so-unlock-the-chains-from-your-heart-and-let/) [Jimi Hendrix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimi-hendrix/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af0/jimi-hendrix-1491_answers_happiness-is-within-you-so-unlock-the-ch_748396.jpg) > [As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/as-down-in-the-sunless-retreats-of-the-ocean-sweet-flowers-are/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/623/charles-lamb-1144_clouded_as-down-in-the-sunless-retreats-of-the-o_660016.jpg) > [“I bear a basket lined with grass; I am so light, I am so fair, That men must wonder as I pass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/i-bear-a-basket-lined-with-grass-i-am-so-light-i-am-so-fair-that-men/) [Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f49/gerard-manley-hopkins-4543_gardening_i-bear-a-basket-lined-with-grass-i-am-so_3128528.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sweet-flowers/#itemlist", "name": "Sweet flowers Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "German Proverb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/german-proverb/look-before-you-leap-for-snakes-among-sweet-flowers-do-creep/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/german-proverb-11849_snakes_look-before-you-leap-for-snakes-among-sw_620278.jpg", "contentUrl": 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