Quote by William Shakespeare

“ Fresh, sweet honeysuckle. Ripe and rich and ready to be fucked— PLUCKED , he corrected himself, ready to be plucked. ”

— Christine Warren

“Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to…

— Oscar Wilde

“We have chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and…

— Jonathan Swift

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." [ Give me the splendid silent sun ]”

— Walt Whitman

“...bathed in the thick honey gold of the sun through encircling trees only just beginning to turn the muted metal colors of fall.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“Honeysuckle: A hardy flowering vine or shrub with sprays of tubular blossoms whose strong, honeyed scent offers protection from those who intend harm”

— Meg Donohue

“My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—equal seekers of sweetness.”

— Mary Oliver

“The sun with all the planets around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing…

— Galileo Galilei

I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“And of a Sunday swarm the folk Under the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.”

— Théophile Gautier

“The sweeter the honey the smarter the bee that made it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, Warren, my darling.”

— Patricia Briggs