Sweet Quotes

3833 Sweet quotes by 2078 unique authors

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. — Seneca the Younger
There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into… — Khalil Gibran
Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads… — John Greenleaf Whittier
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the… — Henry Van Dyke
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer… — Charles Lamb
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. — William Shakespeare
My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at… — Alexander Smith
War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it. — Pindar
It is sweet and honorable to die for your country. — Horace
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point . — Horace
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely… — George MacDonald
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. — Don DeLillo
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the… — John Dryden
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart. — Henrik Ibsen
Sweet is a grief well ended. — Aeschylus
I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more. — John Clare
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,… — Hermann Hesse
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. — William Shakespeare
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope… — Alan Coren
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. — Lucretius

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