Sweetest Quotes - Page 15

• Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Girl, Women

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women”, p.468, Xist Publishing

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• The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

  David Hume

  Life, Learning, Way

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• May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential.

  John Friend

  Joy, Full Potential, May

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• The poorest people are the sweetest people.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Poorest

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• This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Nice, Rain, Paris

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• Counter to the public's thinking, the celebrities who attract the largest number of stalkers - and typically it's not "if" a celebrity has a stalker, it's "how many" - are neither the most glamorous nor obnoxious, but rather the ones who seem the sweetest and most wholesome. They appear approachable.

  Park Dietz

  Thinking, Numbers, Glamorous

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Be true to Love.
  Do not betray Her.
  Then, on the day
  that the forest of the mind
  bursts into flames,
  you will not run.
  You will remain silent and still;
  for this is when Love bears
  Her sweetest fruit:
  untouched Presence.

  Mooji

  Running, Love Is, Flames

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• The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Makeup, Guy, Looks

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• Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

  Laurence Sterne

  Prayer, Easy, Duty

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

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• We now have the sweetest, kindest and most generous fans from far away places - it’s a real privilege.

  Nick Littlemore

  Real, Fans, Privilege

  "Empire of the Sun interview: 'We want Vegas show with elephants'". Interview with Robert Copsey, www.digitalspy.com. June 20, 2013.

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• As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

  George MacDonald

  Sadness, Joy, Sorrow

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Taste, Juliet

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

  Gregory Maguire

  Running, Feet, Sound

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• Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.

  Dave Grohl

  Guy, World, Interviews

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• My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

  Rita Ora

  Couple, Dad, Mum

  "Riotous Rita Ora talks wardrobe malfunctions, Jay-Z, Eurovision and getting smashed on whiskey" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. August 24, 2012.

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• Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

  Robert Burns

  Thrill, Woe, Pleasure

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.214

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• Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

  Gore Vidal

  Winning, Smugness, Next

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• The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flower, Cities, Soul

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.73

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• The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.

  Sara Shepard

  Love, Secret, Darkest Secrets

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• Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

  Heinrich Heine

  Wise, Witty, Philosophical

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.235

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Flower, Heart

  "Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos".

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• The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

  Carol Tavris

  Life, Three, Knows

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• In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Disappointment, Grace

  John Bunyan (1873). “The Complete Works”, p.79

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• If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Success, Fate, Joy

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.163, Aum Publications

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  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Reflection, Political Will

  "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

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