
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell, l. 14
Life Thoughts (1858)
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell, l. 14
“The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!”
Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 2 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“The sweetest flowers in all the world—
A baby's hands.”
Étude Réaliste.
Undated
“The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.”
Source: The Zahir
“God in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.”
"The Fly"
Good Intentions (1942)
Variant: God in his wisdom made me fly, and then forgot to tell me why.
“Don't talk. Kill it."
That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”
Source: Kill the Dead
“Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Not Love, not War.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999)
The Golden Verses
“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.”