Rose Flower Quotes

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, For me it is my heart.

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength is very fragile, vulnerable. Their strength is the strength of life not of death. Their power is not of that which kills; their power is of that which creates. Their power is not of violence, aggression; their power is that of compassion.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.