35 Mint Quotes

Different kinds of mint plants produce the aromatic herb known as mint.

Drinks and foods have long benefited from the fresh flavor and aroma that mint brings, notably in Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines. Mint leaves, whether they are fresh or dried, are used as ingredients, and the essential oil is obtained for flavoring and smell.

From spring until fall, mint is continually collected for its tender young leaves, but it may also be grown indoors, making it available all year. From hot mint tea to icy mint juleps and mojitos, mint is utilized in a wide range of delectable baked goods, savory sauces, and beverages.

Aesthetic Mint Quotes

These mint quotes will make you understand the various perspectives of different people on mint!

“Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it”

- Drake.

“The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.”

- John Gerard.

“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.”

- Waverley Root.

“If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.”

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.”

- Maggie Stiefvater.

“As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.”

- Pliny the Elder.

“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”

- Thomas B. Macaulay.

“It’s clear, it’s fresh, like a mint candy.”

- Margaret Atwood.

“The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.”

- Mary MacLane.

“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.”

- Don Marquis.

“My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.”

- Holly Black.

"Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme,

Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time."

-Alexander Pope.

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“Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun and with him rises weeping: these are flowers of middle summer, and I think they are given to men of middle age.”

- William Shakespeare.

“The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow.”

- Langston Hughes.

“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”

- Anthony Marra.

“Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.”

- Iggy Azalea.

“The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

“Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.”

- Jim Bishop.

“….that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.”

- Charles Dickens.

“I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I’m hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I’m scoring a goal in hockey.”

- Jack Gantos.

“The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.”

- Alexander Smith.

“Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.”

- Billy Connolly.

“A man in all the world’s new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.”

- William Shakespeare.

“Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.”

- Tennessee Williams.

“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.”

- Alice Hoffman.

"Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag like some people have breath mints."

-Kim Harrison.

“Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun, and with him rise weeping.”

- William Shakespeare.

“My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important. Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.”

- W. P. Kinsella.

“My wife is one of the best women on this continent, although she isn’t always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.”

- Charles Farrar Browne

“Economy, the poor man’s mint.”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper.

Funny Mint Quotes

Did you know mint quotes can be funny as well? Well, take a look here and you'll know.

"The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last."

-Evan Esar.

“Tic Tacs are the maracas of breath mints.”

- Demetri Martin.

"I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans."

- Billy Joel.

“And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.”

- Greg Proops

"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint."

-Don Marquis.