Famous quotes containing the word sweeter:
“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“... Knowledge he shall unwind
Through victories of the mind,
Till, clambering at the cradle-side,
He dreams himself his mothers pride,
All knowledge lost in trance
Of sweeter ignorance.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel twig
Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue
As hazelnuts, and sweeter than the kernels.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)