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  • La mort ne fait jamais mal. La mort est douce† Ce qui fait souffrir avec certains poisons, certaines blessures maladroites, c'est la vie. C'est le reste de vie. Il faut se confier franchement a'   la mort comme une amie. Death never hurts. Death is sweet† Life is what makes us suffer with its poisons and awkward injuries. That's what remains of life.We must confide freely in death as we would in a friend.

    -Jean Anouilh
    Eurydice, act1.

  • How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms119:103.

  • Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Proverbs 9:17.

  • Itook thelittlebookout of theangel'shand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation10:9^10.

  • So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. But I can telllet truth be told That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

    - Robert Seymour Bridges
      'So Sweet Loved Seemed'.

  • We loved, sirused to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was But then, how it was sweet!

    - Robert Browning
      Dramatis Personae,'Confessions', stanza 9.

  • All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

    - Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior Burton
    Anatomy of Melancholy,'The  Author's  Abstract of Melancholy'.

  • Sweet is revengeespecially to women.

    -Rochdale
    ^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza124.

  • 'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels By blood or ink; 'tis sweet to put an end To strife; 'tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Particularly with a tiresome friend; Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels; Dear is the helpless creature we defend Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.

    -Rochdale
    ^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza126.

  • You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth, and perfect change of will; But sweet, sweet is this human life, So sweet, I fain would breathe it still; Your chilly stars I can forgo, This warm kind world is all I know.

    -William originally  WilliamJohnson Cory
      Ionica, Poems,'Mimnermus in Church'.

  • Drinking is the soldier's pleasure; Rich the treasure; Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain.

    -John Dryden
      Alexander's Feast, l.57^60.

  • By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

    - Reginald Heber
      In the Christian Observer,  Apr.

  • Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. See Owen 632:57.

    -Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
    Odes, bk.3, no.2, l.13.

  • Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

    - Ben Jonson
    ^10  Epicoene, act1, sc.1.

  • Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

    -John Keats
      Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza 2.

  •    Tout au monde est me"  le   d'amertume et de charmes: La guerre a ses douceurs, l'hymen a ses alarmes. Everything in the world is a mixture of the sweet and the sour: War has its own sweetness and marriage its alarms.

    -Jean de La Fontaine
      Fables, pt.3, no.1,'Le meunier, son fils et l'a"  ne'.

  • Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly.

    - Richard Lovelace
      Lucasta,'To Lucasta, Going to the Wars'.

  •    A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love. Fair lady, will you any?

    -John Lyly
      Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

  • That sweet bondage which is freedom's self.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      Queen Mab, canto 9.

  • Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Ode to theWestWind', l.29^36.

  • Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Ode to theWestWind', l.57^61.

  • The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Adonais, preface.

  •   That sweet enemy, France.

    - Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
    Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 41.

  • There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

    - Edmund Spenser
      Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

  • Poetry is a rich, full-blooded whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbers the leaf, the duet of two nightingales, the sweet pea, that has run wild,Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

    -Wallace Stevens
    Quoted in Life,13 Jun1960.

  • Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks isgood, and to forgive.

    - Algernon Charles Swinburne
      Poems and Ballads (2nd edn),'AveAtqueVale', stanza17.

  •    Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.3, added song, stanzas1^2.

  •    Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanzas 3^4.

  • There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries,'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps,'She is late;' The larkspur listens,'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers,'I wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airya tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat; Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.

    -Tennyson
      Maud, pt.1, sect.22, stanzas10^11, l. 908^23.

  • The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet, The only sweet thing that is not also fleet.

    - (Philip) Edward Thomas
      'Early One Morning'.

  • The Red Cow was very respectable, shealways behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or whitethere was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were badthere was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or sourthere were never any moderately nice ones.

    - P(amela) L(yndon) Travers
      Mary Poppins, ch.5.

  • Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

    - Edmund Waller
      'Go, lovely rose'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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