We look before and after,
And sigh for what is not.
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those
that tell of saddest thought [ Shelley ]
A surfeit of sweetest things. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
He the sweetest of all singers. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Pity is woman's sweetest charm. [ Balzac ]
All that's bright must fade -
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest. [ Moore ]
A light broke in upon my soul -
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased - and then it came again
The sweetest song ear ever heard. [ Byron ]
Stolen kisses are always sweetest. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Grace is a plant, where'er it grows
Of pure and heavenly root;
But fairest in the youngest shows,
And yields the sweetest fruit. [ William Cowper ]
For discords make the sweetest airs. [ Butler ]
The sweetest type of heaven is home. [ J. G. Holland ]
'Tis not the fairest form that holds
The mildest, purest soul within;
'Tis not the richest plant that holds
The sweetest fragrance in. [ Dawes ]
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. [ Xenophon ]
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken. [ Bovee ]
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. [ Shakespeare ]
Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow againe. [ Thos. Percy ]
In the sweetest bud
The eating canker dwells; so eating love
Inhabits in the finest wits of all. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Sc.1 ]
Not more the rose, the queen of flowers,
Outblushes all the bloom of bower,
Than she unrivalled grace discloses;
The sweetest rose, where all are roses. [ Moore ]
The shortest pleasures are the sweetest. [ Farquhar ]
Weep no more, lady, weep no more.
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow again. [ Percy ]
Sweetest memorial, the first kiss of love. [ Byron ]
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. [ William Shakespeare ]
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. [ Bailey ]
A surfeit or the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare ]
The greatest calf is not the sweetest veal. [ Proverb ]
Love is the sweetest and best of moralists.
Surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
Sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light;
A rosy garland, and a weary head. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar. [ Proverb ]
Mother is one of the sweetest names on earth. [ A. Ritchie ]
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. [ Wordsworth ]
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue;
A string which hath no discord. [ Barry Cornwall ]
The rose is fairest when it is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. [ Byron ]
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]
The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. [ Willis ]
Into these ears of mine,
These credulous ears, he poured the sweetest words
That art or love could frame. [ Beaumont ]
Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence. [ L. E. Landon ]
Woman is the sweetest present that God has given to man. [ Guyard ]
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [ Vauvenargues ]
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts. [ Shelley ]
One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret. [ Gavarni ]
Variety alone gives joy; the sweetest meats the soonest cloy. [ Prior ]
He enjoyeth the sweetest liberty that hath a quiet conscience. [ St. Gregory ]
Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance made more sweet. [ Wordsworth ]
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers will never make grow again. [ Byron ]
His sweetest dreams were still of that dear voice that soothed his infancy. [ Southey ]
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Love is the sweetest of errors - an error of the heart, of which it is cruel to be disabused.
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. [ Malesherbes ]
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. [ Beecher ]
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercyseat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys. [ T. L. Cuyler ]
We all have in our hearts a secret place where we keep, free from the contact of the world, our sweetest remembrances. [ De Finod ]
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. [ Bovee ]
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament, and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability. [ Bentzel-Sternaft ]
Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother: in those six words lies what the human heart contains of the sweetest, the most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. [ Massias ]
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers, and the sharpest thorns; as the heavens are sometimes overcast — alternately tempestuous and serene — so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and with pains. [ Burton ]
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. [ Bovee ]
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. [ Lowell ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]