“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
Source: The Sonnets
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell, l. 14
“The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.”
Philip Reeve book Here Lies Arthur
Source: Here Lies Arthur
“Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Not Love, not War.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Dracula, talking to Lucy and Mina at the opera
Dracula (1931)
“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“The better day, the worse deed.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Genesis 3.
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“Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)