Sweetness Quotes

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

Christophe's smile was a marvel of edged sweetness. When he grinned like that he looked handsomer than ever, the hint of danger just about threatening to stop a girl's heart.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.