
“The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.”
Source: The Zahir
Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 2 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.”
Source: The Zahir
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
Life Thoughts (1858)
“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
“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”
Less Than the Dust
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)
“Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.”
Is It Bill Bailey? (TV, 1998)
Quoted in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!, David Remnick, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-coming-for-your-hamburgers (3 March 2019)
Quotes (2019)
“Give it time, girl, the fire feels divine.
The sweetest things, they burn before they shine.”
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)