Sweetness Quotations

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

I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake... it gets me excited.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

One single name will yield fresh sweetness and fresh joy every time it is rolled on the tongue.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

So long as the sugar is on the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly, so long as the heart has love, peace and devotion, you feel the bliss.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites

Caramelized onions add a complex sweetness to any dish -- and work especially well with the pork in this sausage. My mother made sausage with marjoram on holidays, so this is a special flavor for me. This isn't necessarily a classic sausage flavor combination, but it's one that really works.

Caramelized onions add a complex sweetness to any dish - and work especially well with the pork in this sausage. My mother made sausage with marjoram on holidays, so this is a special flavor for me. This isn't necessarily a classic sausage flavor combination, but it's one that really works.

Caramelized onions add a complex sweetness to any dish and work especially well with the pork in this sausage. My mother made sausage with marjoram on holidays, so this is a special flavor for me. This isn't necessarily a classic sausage flavor combination, but it's one that really works.

God is the Seed;The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable being, willing to carry on the commerce of life with all the sweetness and condescension, decency and virtue will permit.

the pain was so sharp that it made me utter several moans; and so excessive was the sweetness caused me by this intense pain that one can never wish to lose it.

He's going to be a great foil for the guys on our show. Forest has always impressed me with his range. He's got an incredible sweetness and soulfulness but also strength. It's a rare combination for an actor and that appealed to me with this character.

There is a kind of sweetness to Harry Dean that we didn't consider part of his character until Harry was saying the words.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones

Life starts with Love. The sweetness of love coming out of life is the great and unique principle that is at the source of everything. You can put this love in any field of work.

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.

I was the quintessence of sweetness and innocence as an Alice in Wonderland-ish little girl, so I guess no one ever expected such darkness from me.

THOSE who deny God, the Supreme Will or the First Cause, can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand; nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all, how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy, manipulating both, the minutest atom and cell and the vastest, most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence, except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

We enjoy traditional music, ... but we like the stuff that is a little bit challenging and edgy. You can also say that a lot of the Tom Tom Club stuff has a real sweetness to it. We're certainly not opposed to sweetness in music.

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ...

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

When we couldn't find the right person, we decided to abandon preconceptions and look at people we hadn't thought of. She came in and her very first audition was so wonderful, so magical. She had this sweetness and innocence, but also something sexy and a little dark.

Every poet who aspires to celebrity strives to approach the perfection of Pope and the sweetness of his versification.

While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

As the mother, so the progress of the nation. As the mother, so the sweetness of culture!

The sweetness and pleasantness of personality should be evident in his actions and thoughts. This will help in establishing peace and happiness all round and lead to the feeling of universal brotherhood.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

The salt in the cookie is a plus, and it offsets the cloying sweetness of the cream a little.

There would be a very nice small book in it about another time and era in America, a kind of sweetness and friendship,

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper -the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

So this is a little bit of a jar, it's a wake-up call that it isn't all sweetness in life.

That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which thou shouldst be aye waxing.

IT takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes.

I don't pretend to sweet ya sweetness when I'm with ya. It's just that I'm from a different time.

The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.

All sweetness and glory, a rose never shrinks from its magnificence.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

And now, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile.

It made me feel good, yeah, because we've been through so many wars together. And it feels good to kind of be able to enjoy ... the sweetness of it. And now to be able to move on, for the organization to move on, the city to move on and to focus on building this team, (I) wish him all the best with his team down on South Beach.

This light called Sweetness now belongs to heaven and to the ages. Thank God for Sweetness.

His comedy doesn't come from a place of anger. He's got a kind of sweetness to him.

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

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

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

If you focus on only the seeds in a watermelon, you missed the sweetness of the meat

Nothing but sweetness can remain when hearts are full of their own sweetness.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

He loved her. ... she can be talking to me about regular things but when she mentions Martin, her voice always falls a little bit and you can sense the intimacy. ... The sweetness of that relationship was always evident.

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.

When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

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

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.