Great saying by great authors Quote by Edmund Blunden

When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens…

— Saint Francis de Sales

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

— John Lyly

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

— Karl von Frisch

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them…

— Saint Francis de Sales

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out…

— Thomas Brooks

“I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.”

— Patrick O'Brian

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

— Takeda Shingen

I have a profound love of bees.

— Lily Gladstone

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

— Emily Dickinson

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

“Lovely July… with the evocative murmur of honey bees on the wing and the smell of sun tan cream. —C”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach