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Sweetness Quotes - Page 2

I bought the sweetness with this pain.

I bought the sweetness with this pain.

Anne Reeve Aldrich

Pain, Sweetness

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acid, Temper, Sweetness

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Spring, Peculiar, Sweetness

Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.70, Youcanprint

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Understanding, Sweetness

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Tears, Sweetness, Weeping

Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

Denise Levertov

August, Breathe, Sweetness

Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

Sugar, Honey, Sweetness

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.54

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Glory, Sweetness

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

Sweetness Of Life, People, Steps

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

Thinking, Being True, Sweetness

Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.216, Vintage

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Charles Dickens

Spirit, Existence, Sweetness

If you focus on only the seeds in a watermelon, you missed the sweetness of the meat

Focus, Meat, Sweetness

Wally Amos, Stu Glauberman (2011). “Watermelon Magic: Seeds Of Wisdom, Slices Of Life”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Sherwood Anderson

Apples, Twisted, Sweetness

Sherwood Anderson (1919). “Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-town Life”, p.19, Primedia E-launch LLC

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

Emptiness, Stomach, Sweetness

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

Melissa Etheridge

Success, Believe, Sweetness

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Heart, Pleasure, Sweetness

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Mary Russell Mitford

Character, Genius, Sweetness

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

Littles, Sweetness, Bites

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

Light, Sweetness, Wells

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Sweetness

1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

Rose, Lasts, Sweetness

John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.308

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

Sweetness Of Life, Bitterness, Sweetness

Humor & Caricature magazine, September 1995.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

Flower, Sweetness

Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.82, Modern Library

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

Long, Poetry, Sweetness

George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.103

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.

Emily Dickinson

Enough, Sweetness

Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.265, Courier Corporation

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