Quotes
Quotes about Sweetness
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."
The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),
