Henry Constable quotes

“My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.”
-- Henry Constable

Source : Robert Southwell, Henry Constable, William Drummond (1906). “Robert Southwell: Selected Poems; Henry Constable: Pastorals and Sonnets; William Drummond: Songs, Sonnets, Etc”

#Rose Quotes #Red Quotes #Lips Quotes

“You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”

“It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?”

“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”

“Ive always loved my red wine, and when Im not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so its one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.”

“I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.”

“Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.”

“My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.”

“A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.”

Source : Alexandra Ivy, Angie Fox, Tami Dane, Jess Haines (2014). “The Real Werewives of Vampire County”, p.12, Zebra Books

“An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.”

“We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.”