Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.

Emily Dickinson

It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

Emily Dickinson

'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

Emily Dickinson

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Hesiod

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Hesiod

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Heinrich Heine

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

Heinrich Heine

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

Heinrich Heine

With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

Heinrich Heine

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

Heinrich Heine

And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

Hilary Mantel

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

Henry Ward Beecher

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Henry Ward Beecher

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Henry Ward Beecher

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

Henry Ward Beecher

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Henry James

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more - this idea was as sweet as a vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land. ... but Isabel recognized, as it passed before her eyes, the quick vague shadow of a long future. She should never escape; she should last to the end.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Joel Barlow

I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

Joe Wright

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.