Sweetest Quotes

• Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Passion, Butterfly, Men

  "Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly art - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2016.

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• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sad, Song, Musical

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

  Jessie Andrews

  People, Age, Violin

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• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Quiet Voice, Loving Someone

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

  Little Richard

  Gay, Thoughtful, People

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• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Smell, Shy

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• You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

  John Keats

  Best Friend, Kissing, Movement

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

  Alanis Morissette

  Friendship, I Love You, Cute Love

  Song: Head Over Feet, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Truth, Lying, Reality

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• Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

  Sophocles

  Thinking, Knowing, Not Knowing

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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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, Sweet, Hate

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

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• The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

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• Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

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  You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

  John Keats

  Kissing, Teenage Love, Lasts

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.162

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• Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

  Leigh Hunt

  Tattoo, Sexy, Kissing

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  Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Positive, Success, Gymnastics

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• The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Beautiful, Summer, Home

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

  Leila Aboulela

  Things In Life, Giving, Waiting

  Leila Aboulela (2011). “Lyrics Alley: A Novel”, p.280, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Hey mister, where you goin' in such a hurry? Don't you think it's time you realize There's a whole lot more to life than work and worry All the sweetest things in life are free And they're right before your eyes? You've got to stop and smell the roses You've got to count your many blessings every day You're gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road If you don't stop and smell the roses along the way

  Mac Davis

  Eye, Blessing, Thinking

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• Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Love Is, Joy, Feelings

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sea, Land, Bird

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Sports, Games, Balls

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