Sweetness Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Sweetness.
Top Quotes
“Life should be sweet.”
“Sweets to the sweet: farewell.”
“Sweet meat must have sour sauce.”
“The sweet mouth gathers sweet herbs.”
“Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”
“Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.”
“Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.”
“The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.”
“Everye white will have its blacke
And everye sweete its soure.”
“The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
“To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.”
“Wikipedia: Sweetness”
“Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.”
“If it is too sweet for him, let him eat salt. If it is not too sweet for him, let him eat licorice.”
“Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.”
“The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"—as Swift … most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."”