Sweet pea quotes by topic: Women and sweet peas, Gardening and sweet peas, Flowers and sweet peas, Sweet peas features, Attitude to sweet peas, Fragrance and sweet peas, Literature and sweet peas, People and sweet peas.
Women and sweet peas
She had sweet peas in her hair, and at her belt. (Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson)
You remind me of a sweetpea, Emma. One of those crisp, erect, golden-white, fresh, fragrant sweetpeas. I think it is the slenderest, sweetest, neatest, trimmest flower in the world, so delicately set on its stem, and yet so straight, so independent. (Edna Ferber)
I kept looking at the flowers in a vase near me: lavender sweet peas, fragile winged and yet so still, so perfectly poised, apart, and complete. They are self-sufficient, a world in themselves, a whole — perfect. Is that then, perfection? Is what those sweet peas had what I have, occasionally in moments like that? But flowers always have it — poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection; I only occasionally, like that moment. For that moment I and the sweet peas had an understanding. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
The pea is but a wanton witch
In too much haste to wed,
And clasps her rings on every hand. (Thomas Hood)
Gardening and sweet peas
Mamma was planting a quantity of sweet peas, in order to have a second and late crop, after the first had begun to fade. (Emma Davenport)
Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy. (Blythe Danner)
He is digging up the earth in his green boxes, and carefully sowing the seeds of the scarlet nasturtium, convolvulus, and sweet-pea. (Émile Souvestre)
“We’ll have to cast our professional eyes into the garden and decide on the best place for the sweetpeas,” said Roger. “They have to be planted early, you know. If we plant them just anywhere they’ll be sure to be in the way of something that grows shorter so it will be hidden.” (Mabell S.C. Smith)
Flowers and sweet peas
Beside the house blue larkspur, nasturtium, and sweet-peas are blooming. (Honoré de Balzac)
Not rare flowers, such as she had just been admiring, but flowers sweet and common, pansies and thyme, sweet peas and mignonette. (Margaret M. Robertson)
All along, there were thickets of sweet briar, and sweet peas; and cactuses, just beginning to bloom, made the way one of continual splendor. (Cora Marsland)
In the garden a thousand roses,
A vine of jessamine flower,
Sweetpeas in coquettish poses,
Sweetbrier with its fragrant dower. (Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
Sweet peas features
Sweet pea whose flowers have ears like little hares. (Colette)
Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in. (Allison Pearson)
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. (John Keats)
Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias. (Gerald Durrell)
Attitude to sweet peas
I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
Up climb’d the sweet pea,
The butterfly of flowers:—I love it not,
Though every hue—and it has many tints—
Are dyed as if the sunset evening clouds
Had fallen to the earth in sudden rain,
And left their colours: purple, delicate pink,
And snowy white, are on thy wing-like leaves; (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Sweet pea! Cheap luxury!
Barefoot prince of spring!
Blooming illumination of bowls
Shining only with dew; (Novella Matveeva)
Fragrance and sweet peas
Lily of the valley filled jam jars at each table, but sweet peas had won out in the battle to fragrance the evening air. (Anouska Knight)
Once I drove through the area in early summer, in the evening. It was very mild and the scent of sweet peas filled the sky. (Michael Hoeye)
Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour. (Monty Don)
Literature and sweet peas
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. (Joan Aiken)
Many and many a verse I hope to write,
Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white,
Hide in deep herbage; and ere yet the bees
Hum about globes of clover and sweet peas,
I must be near the middle of my story. (John Keats)
People and sweet peas
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one’s nose into sweet peas. (Angela Thirkell)
How had he managed to go on so long in that town devoid of the scent of sweetpeas, where he had not even space to put his treasures? (John Galsworthy)
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