Sweet

Famous quotes containing the word sweet:

“In social halls a favored guest
In years that follow victory won,
How sweet to feel your festal fame
In woman’s glance instinctive thrown:
Repose is yours—your deed is known,”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

““I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros.””
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs’ dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)