Sweetness And Light Quotes

#1. Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

E. M. Forster

#2. I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Ruth Rendell

#3. We have chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Jonathan Swift

#4. Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

#5. The story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.

Kate DiCamillo

#6. My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?

Mary E. DeMuth

#7. Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

William Safire

#8. You are sweetness and light. Human cotton candy.

Myra McEntire

#9. Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Matthew Arnold

#10. I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

#12. We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.

Midge Decter

#13. Everything, as you well know ... cannot always be sweetness and light.

Kate DiCamillo

#14. Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hedda Hopper

#15. Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Ruth Rendell

#16. People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

Penelope Wilton

#17. I love you because I don't know how to not love you. Becuase I can't imagine my world without you, and I don't ever want to have to face that again. Because you are sweetness and light and life, and you see me as the man I could be not as the man I am.

Catherine Gayle

#18. Where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?

Louella Parsons

#19. What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Orson Scott Card

#20. In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

Alice Walker

#21. And you ma'am, are pure sweetness and light!" He grinned slowly. He mocked her in return, but he was surprisingly, wickedly handsome.

Heather Graham

#22. She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.

Sylvain Reynard

#23. She was innocence and sweetness, happiness and light.

A.G. Howard

#24. When love is sweet, the sweetness means its light
And light may keep the truth, when love is pure.
But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.
Lovers in a fight are quite immature.'
From the poem 'A Note on Existentialist Love

Marieta Maglas

#25. You must never leave me Sweetness. I will never leave you.

Jen Wylie

#26. I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#27. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

John Milton

#28. Light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the

L.M. Montgomery

#29. Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know you, you are the flying one and will leave. But can't we swallow the sweetness and can't you sing in my arms and sleep in the human light of the sun and moon I have been drinking alone.

Linda Hogan