Sweet Quotes - page 3

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! (Patrick Henry)
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. View quote
William Cowper
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide. View quote
William Blake
The soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd. View quote
William Blake
Children of the future AgeReading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove sweet Love was thought a crime. View quote
William Blake
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. View quote
Paul Newman
Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet. View quote
William Wordsworth
Sweet Mercy to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. View quote
William Wordsworth
Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. View quote
William Wordsworth
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy. (William Wordsworth)
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still. View quote
William Wordsworth
Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet. View quote
William Wordsworth
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. View quote
Euripides
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay. View quote
Edward Young
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it. View quote
Avigdor Lieberman
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! View quote
William Shakespeare
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. (Mark Twain)
The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was n. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Revenge is sweet and not fattening. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter. View quote
John Keats
Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge