Sweet Quotes - Page 38

• 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 the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Garden, Smell

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

  Horace

  Country, Latin, Honorable

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• He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

  Horace

  Latin

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• 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 used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

  George MacDonald

  Friendship, Money, Powerful

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.451, e-artnow

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• The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Effort, Bitterness

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• It was a lover and his lass,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
  That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
  When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
  Sweet lovers love the spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Bird, Green

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Love You, Sullen

  Sonnet 29

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• 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

  Life, Husband, Heart

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

  Aeschylus

  Life, Wisdom, Grief

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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

  Love, Heart, Dwelling

  John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press

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• 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, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Dream, Hurt

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• Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Kissing, Night

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• Who, of men, can tell
  That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
  To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
  The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
  The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones,
  The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
  Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
  If human souls did never kiss and greet?

  John Keats

  Flower, Science, Kissing

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 835

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• 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 the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Morning, Food, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon”, p.177

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• 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 pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Pain, Drinking, Blessing

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• 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

  Flower, Sleep, Medicine

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• 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 abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

  Alan Coren

  Flower, Passion, Garden

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• For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Earth, Wonder

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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• Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

  Jean Paul

  Strong, Flower, Storm

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Flower, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
  Queen rose so fair and sweet.
  What were lover or crown to thee,
  without the clay at thy feet?

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Beautiful, Queens, Flower

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• By cool Siloam's shady rill
  How sweet the lily grows!
  How sweet the breath beneath the hill
  Of Sharon's dewy rose!

  Richard Heber

  Flower, Rose, Lilies

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• Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
  You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled.
  Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
  The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flower, Rose, Sorrow

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
  For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Air, White

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