Sweetness Quotes

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is.

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

If you focus on only the seeds in a watermelon, you missed the sweetness of the meat

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words