Sweet Quotes - Page 34

• Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Kissing, Arms

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.628, Bantam

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• Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, your flawless fashion sense?” It did his heart good to see her quick, amused grin. “No, I must be thinking of someone else. It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many.” “That’s not me.” “Oh, but it is you, darling Eve.

  Nora Roberts

  Fashion, Heart, Thinking

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• What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

  Margaret Atwood

  College, Thinking, Innocent

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

  Mary Oliver

  Lying, Sea, Breathing

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.41, Penguin

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• Harvester’s heart soared. Reaver had offered to castrate an archangel for her. How sweet was that?

  Larissa Ione

  Heart, Reavers, Archangel

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• Harvester might have a halo, but dear, sweet Lord, she was no angel in the sack. Awesome.

  Larissa Ione

  Angel, Halos, Might

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Time, Journey, Snow

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Spring, Laughing

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

  Edmund Waller

  Time, Rose, Lovely

  "Go, Lovely Rose!" l. 1 (1645)

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Grandma, Grandpa

  "China: Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1972.

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• Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Passion, Arrows

  Song: Dark Eyes, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• There is no name so sweet on earth,
  no name so sweet in heaven,
  The name, before His wondrous birth,
  to Christ the Savior given.

  George Washington Bethune

  Christmas, Names, Heaven

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• What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we
  should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Courage

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• For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
  Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Earth, Letters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.576

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• What if this cursed hand
  Were thicker than itself with brother's blood
  Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves
  To wash it white as snow?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Brother, Rain

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
  Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed
  Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Hope, Dark, Spirit

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.706

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• What shall I do with all the days and hours
  That must be counted ere I see thy face?
  How shall I charm the interval that lowers
  Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

  Fanny Kemble

  I Miss You, Missing You, Letting Go

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.129

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• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

  Philip Sidney

  Food, Knowledge, Cooking

  Sir Philip Sidney (1831). “The Defence of Poesy”, p.16

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• A little sun, a little rain,
  A soft wind blowing from the west,
  And woods and fields are sweet again,
  And warmth within the mountain's breast
  
  A little love, a little trust,
  A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
  And life as dry as desert dust,
  Is fresher than a mountain stream.

  Stopford Brooke

  Life, Dream, Rain

  Stopford Augustus Brooke (1889). “Poems”

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• Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
  Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I'll complain.
  Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Failure, Joy

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

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• We live not in our moments or our years:
  The present we fling from us like the rind
  Of some sweet future, which we after find
  Bitter to taste.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Life, Years, Taste

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1874). “Poems”, p.135

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• And sometimes when I am weary,
  When the path is thorny and Wild,
  I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight,
  Back to the eyes that smiled.
  And pray that a wreath like a rainbow
  May slip from the beautiful past,
  And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love
  And keep me, and hold me fast.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Life, Beautiful, Strong

  Voltairine De Cleyre (2004). “The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader”, A K PressDistribution

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• Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife
  Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

  John Dryden

  Life, Taught, Shame

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.458

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• My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Love, Life, Cute

  "Fictional character: Frankie Henderson". "Madea's Family Reunion", 2006.

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