Sweet Quotes - Page 10

• Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Wickedness, Sour

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.77

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• My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Air, Bed

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• The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Falling In Love, Dying, Scent

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• Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

  Rajneesh

  Summer, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

  Ann B. Ross

  Might, Be Kind, Kind Words

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• My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Nice, Ideas

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.21, Heinemann

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• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Writing, Creativity

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

  Marisha Pessl

  School, Narrative Structure, Temptation

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.83, Penguin

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• Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

  Seamus Heaney

  Believe, Heart, Wind

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes”, p.81, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.

  Gregory Maguire

  Giving Up, Thinking, Swings

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.115, Harper Collins

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• Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

  William Blake

  Baby, Night, Poetry

  The Complete Writings of William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript Auguries of Innocence, l. 119-21

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• She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

  James M. Barrie

  Kissing, Hands, Lovely Lady

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, Choices, Bitter

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

  Diane Ackerman

  Unrest, Logic

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems”, p.47, Vintage

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• I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.

  Laurie R. King

  Children, Home, Hands

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• Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Real, Writing, Bruises

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• Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

  Anne Rice

  Wings, Vampire, Devil

  "Interview with the Vampire". Book by Anne Rice, May 5, 1976.

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• How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

  Anne Rice

  Shameful, Insipid, Predictable

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2444, Ballantine Books

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• Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Rising, World

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.3023, Ballantine Books

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• All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them, anymore than I can afford to neglect my precious wife--nor the sweet mother Earth that births and holds us all. Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.

  Alan Weisman

  Mother, Simple, Wife

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• Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Heart, Plot

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• She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .

  Jean Genet

  Princess, Numbers, Dolls

  Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

  Pearl Cleage

  Crazy, Ordinary Days, Like Love

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• Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.

  Nancy Holder

  Song, Passion, Cutting

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• The experience of this sweet life.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet Life

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy Reference With Modern English Translation of the Epic Poem: Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.1616, BookCaps Study Guides

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