Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. Rich. III., ii. 4.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest birds. Milton.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect / Misshapes the beauteous form of things: / We murder to dissect. Wordsworth.

Sweet is true love though given in vain, / And 25 sweet is death that puts an end to pain. Tennyson.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Tit. Andron., i. 2.

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! Sterne.

Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is? That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society. Disraeli.

Sweet Swan of Avon. Ben Jonson of Shakespeare.

Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance 30 made more sweet. Wordsworth.

Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay / In kindness takes the kindness all away. Anon.