Sweetness Quotes

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

Aldo Gucci

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

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

George Bernard Shaw

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

Bible

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Edward Hoagland

Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.

Barbara Cheney

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

The way to find out if you love someone or not, is by talking to them. The more you talk to them the more you either hate them or love them.

Brad Breitenstein

If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.

African Proverb

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

It is not with saying, Honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

African Proverb

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

Charles Churchill

The fly that touches honey cannot use its wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins its freedom and hinders contemplation.

Ghose Aurobindo

Stolen sweets are best.

Colley Cibber