Sweetest Quotes - Page 5

• My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'

  Joseph Cotten

  Jealous, Kissing, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

  Eli Roth

  People

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• There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

  Samuel Lover

  Motherhood, Voice, Childhood

  Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.14

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• Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Retrospect, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Parent, Forever, Sound

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• The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

  Thomas Roberts

  Summer, Spring, Sound

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• O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Flower, Taken

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.173, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

  Jason Derulo

  Mom, Honesty, Heart

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• A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Children, Sweet Child

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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• Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
  May look wrinkled and wet
  And withered, and white as the snow,
  But the taste of a thumb
  Is the sweetest taste yet
  (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

  Shel Silverstein

  White, Snow, Looks

  Shel Silverstein, “Thumbs”

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• Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Sadism, Pleasure

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Beauty, Use, Posse

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.448

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• The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

  George Jean Nathan

  Memories, Done, Should

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Heart, Suggestions

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.

  Milan Kundera

  Wise, Mother, Dream

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• There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Memories, Blow, Night

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• For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ties, Loathing

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

  Richard L. Evans

  Sleep, Men, Drug

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• That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
  For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
  The ornament of beauty is suspect,
  A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Air, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Soul, Plant, Form

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• Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

  Amelia Barr

  Song, Gratitude, Light

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• You are my sweetest downfall.

  Regina Spektor

  Love, Falling In Love, Downfall

  Song: Samson, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

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• I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cute, Romantic Love, Way

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• I remember everything
  What have I become?
  My sweetest friend?
  Everyone I know goes away in the end
  You could have it all
  My empire of dirt
  I will let you down
  I will make you hurt.

  Trent Reznor

  Hurt, Pain, Remembers Everything

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• The sweetest music this side of heaven.

  Guy Lombardo

  Heaven, Sides

  Guy Lombardo, Jack Altshul (1976). “Auld acquaintance”, Ballantine Books

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