“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
Source: The Sonnets
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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell, l. 14
“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.
“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“The better day, the worse deed.”
Genesis 3.
Commentaries
“Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)