“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
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
Life Thoughts (1858)
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Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 2 (1799).
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A baby's hands.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Étude Réaliste.
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And then forgot to tell us why.”
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"The Fly"
Good Intentions (1942)
Variant: God in his wisdom made me fly, and then forgot to tell me why.
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That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
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“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.
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
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.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
