Sweet Quotes - Page 39

• You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

  Ellen Barkin

  Cute, Daughter, Mother

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• What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Taken, Years, Joy

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• The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

  Joseph Simmons

  Beautiful, Positivity, Rose

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• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Twilight, Grieving

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• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Hate, World

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.269

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• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hate, Eye, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2011). “You Never Can Tell”, p.115, The Floating Press

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• In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

  John Lahr

  Goodbye, Dark, Ohio

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Ocean, Flower

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6881, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Eye, Glasses

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.51

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• Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Heart, Doe

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

  Saint Augustine

  Devil, Poison, Sin

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• Wine is only sweet to happy men.

  John Keats

  Happiness, Wine, Men

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.269, e-artnow

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• With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

  Margaret Fuller

  Life, Overcoming, Half

  "The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings".

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• If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

  Billy Wilder

  Funny, Inspiring, Sarcastic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

  Moliere

  Money, War, Keys

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.80, Penguin

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• Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Prudent, Environment

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.399

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• Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Self, Cake

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.342

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• You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.

  Mike Tyson

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Kissing

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• They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dog, Hunting, Smell

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of oil. ... It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.

  Herman Melville

  Hunting, Games, Oil

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.294, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Mind

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• Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

  Carter Heyward

  Inspirational Love, Heart, Love Is

  "Our Passion for Justice : Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.

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• Life is short, yet sweet.

  Euripides

  Life, Life Is Short, Life Is

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• You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme mystery!... And you still live for me on the Altar. If I cannot see the brilliance of your Face Or hear your sweet voice, O my God, I can live by your grace, I can rest on your Sacred Heart!

  Therese of Lisieux

  Heart, Men, Blood

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition”, p.114, ICS Publications

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