Sweetest Quotes - Page 11

• The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

  Democritus

  Excess, Bitter

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• The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

  Eli Roth

  People

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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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• 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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• 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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• I once overheard the sweetest old woman behind me on a train tell her adorable old husband as he scoffed down a ham sandwich she had brought along, "If you ever yell at me to "stop bringing a ham sandwich with me every where we go" again? Next time I'm bringing a gun. And I'm blowing your God damn head off."

  Dane Cook

  Husband, Gun, Adorable

  "Dane Cook, Global Flavor". Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2009.

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• A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sight, Voice, Lovely

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• Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

  Peter Jacobson

  Interesting, Directors, Wonderful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in his early twenties, there were things mentioned that showed up in his novels. One of the sweetest things in those letters was him wanting to be a writer but doubting himself, not having confidence in himself.

  Susan Sarandon

  War, Doubt, Twenties

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Misery, Pleasure

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1915). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

  Robert Southwell

  Lying, Men, Mirrors

  Robert Southwell, “Look Home”

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• Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Parent, Forever, Sound

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Flower, Taken, Son

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• Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

  Ann Landers

  New Year, Memories, Love You

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• Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

  Alvin Ailey

  Adorable, World, Most Adorable

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• It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Wine, Blood, Giving

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• I wear this crown of thorns
  Upon my liar's chair
  Full of broken thoughts
  I cannot repair
  Beneath the stains of time
  The feelings disappear
  You are someone else
  I am still right here
  What have I become
  My sweetest friend?

  Trent Reznor

  Liars, Sadness, Broken

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