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Quotes About Honey

You have done wrong, Mika, I won't allow you to faithless you chose love in the house of Penthilos A sweet song in a honey voice sings clear nightingales over dew fields.
~ Sappho
He smells pleasantly of English cigarettes, expensive perfume, honey, his skin has taken on the scent of silk, the fruity smell of silk tussore, the smell of gold . . .
~ Marguerite Duras
A sad angel with gentle feminine hands, as red as those of a peasant woman, with lips perfumed with honey, tobacco and green tea.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
~ John Updike
Bee-keeping was no doubt important in many places in Scandinavia. Honey was the only known sweetener, was used as a preservative and was an important ingredient in alcoholic drinks, while beeswax was necessary for certain metal-casting processes and it was also the best material for candles.
~ Else Roesdahl
Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.
~ EM Forster
After a time Emma opened the picnic basket and they ate honey sandwiches with ants on them and drank the queer tea that always comes from a thermos.
~ Barbara Comyns
I can't die yet, honey. I haven't finished counting the stars and don't you know, my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.
~ Barbara Freethy
a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.
~ Barbara Sleigh
This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from the one-time land of milk and honey to a stony goat pasture. Saewulf
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The light was soft, diffuse, as if the sun itself had been wrapped in a white mourning veil. While fields of wheat whispered consolation to themselves, the hedgerows were filled with the bright shout of buttercups and champion, bluebells and cow parsley. Even in the shade the air was warm. It would be a good year for honey
~ Beatrice Colin
My dad worked in a honey factory - we used to call him the honey monster' - and I worked there.
~ Jonathan Bailey
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
~ Sarah Fielding
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
~ Scottish Proverb
Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk. (Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)
~ Marlowe Christopher
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.
~ Arundhati Roy
This knowledge of the preservative qualities of honey, at a time when the sugar-cane was unknown in the western world, is no doubt responsible for the fact that the entire body of Alexander the Great was preserved in honey, and viewed by lots and lots of people, some of whom no doubt exclaimed, "Isn't he sweet!
~ Avram Davidson
I read an article about Nirvana on one visit, and it didn't have any references to honey mustard dressing or lettuce. They kept talking about the singer's stomach problems all the time, though. It was weird.
~ Stephen Chbosky
If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don't try and press it down. Don't hide from it. Don't escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That's the way life goes.
~ Ben Okri
The South we belong to is a good country, a valiant country; it always has valor, and it has had industry and thrift. Our house is painted, our grass is green. For those of us who bend our backs and put our shoulders to to the wheel, the South is still Canaan land; it is milk and honey.
~ Ben Robertson
During the day when I have a strenuous rehearsal, I may take a teaspoon of honey in a glass of juice for quick energy.
~ Cyd Charisse
Tiggers don't like honey.
~ A. A. Milne
What I really love are acai bowls, with berries, granola, and so much honey.
~ Auli'i Cravalho