Burrowing Quote by Angela Thirkell

Whatever cleaning goes on on the planet, women do 99% of it. But see, women are not as proud of their 99% as men…

— Jeff Foxworthy

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things,…

— John Keats

My cat is completely blind. I am watching her now, sweet-pea that is, circling the kitchen floor and bumping into the kitchen chairs. She…

— Jann Arden

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

— Joan Aiken

Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with…

— Monty Don

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

— Gerald Durrell

I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies,…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“I’m going to fuck you on this balustrade, so hard you’ll feel it in your bones.” He slowly breathed me in, nudging me with…

— Alice Clayton

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

— Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white,…

— Robert Burns

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we…

— Marcel Proust