Sweet

Famous quotes containing the word sweet:

“[Gen. William S.] “Rosecrans [at Chicamauga] has been badly beaten!”... How these blows strike my heart!... I suffer from these blows more than I did from the loss of my sweet little boy. But I suffer less now than I did from Bull Run, or even Fredericksburg.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Sweet is it, sweet is it
To sleep in the coolness
Of snug unawareness.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“The ripest fruit of all,
That perfect bliss and sole felicity,
The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)