Sweetness Quotes - Page 3

• The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

  Aldo Gucci

  Inspiring, Memories, Business

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  E. B. White

  Time, Nature, Fall

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• Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

  Charles Churchill

  Air, Desert, Waste

  Charles Churchill (1782). “The Beauties of Churchill, Containing All the Celebrated Poems”, p.116

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• When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

  Georg Trakl

  White, Water, Childhood

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• Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  World, Sun, Robbing

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• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  Rahul Dravid

  Determination, Mistake, Thinking

  "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Dream, Retirement

  George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, p.216, The Floating Press

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• The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

  Charles Perrault

  Daughter, Mother, Gentleman

  Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Character, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy". Book by Matthew Arnold, 1869.

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• Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Swans, Meat

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.45

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• In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Real, Names

  Speech in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1966.

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• A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Heart, Apples, Celibacy

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.38

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• That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.

  Raymond Carver

  Morning, Moving, Eye

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.219, Vintage

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• The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Dream, Love Is, Magic

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• Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Air

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• The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Lasts, Illusion

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

  John Calvin

  Sweet, Grace, Our Words

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• I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

  Grayson Perry

  Men, Dressing Up, Dressings

  "Top of the pots". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Ties Of Love, Spirit

  Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns

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• The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

  Catherine Ingram

  Teacher, Laughing, People

  Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.165, Penguin

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• My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again! His beauty... his sweetness and gentleness - really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a husband! to be called names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before - was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life! May God help me to do my duty as I ought and be worthy of such blessings.

  Queen Victoria

  Husband, Blessing, Names

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• An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Character, Delicacy, Appearance

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• Steve Wozniak literally one of the sweetest guys. And that was kind of the thing I had to reconcile: how do I try to do this guy's sweetness justice in some capacity when most of the things I'm doing in the movie are pretty confrontational, and pretty argumentative.

  Seth Rogen

  Justice, Guy, Trying

  Source: variety.com

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• The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Joy, Heaven, Reunion

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