Rose Flower Quotes:

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

- Andre Gide

topic: Rose, Want, Respect Her, Iranian, Wildflowers

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

- Katharine Lee Bates

source: Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

topic: Sweet, Rose, World, Red Rose, Rose Garden

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Inspirational Gardening, Inspirational Positive Attitude

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

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

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

- John Milton

source: 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 256

topic: Flower, Paradise On Earth, Rose, Paradise Lost Book 2, Rose Flower

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

- Thomas Moore

source: 'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Farewell!-but whenever'

topic: Rose, May, Vases, Rose Flower

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.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Life, Flower, Rose, Lovely Things, Rose Flower

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

- Beverley Nichols

topic: Flower, Overcoming, Defeat, Summer Flower, Delectable

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Sweet, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Star Crossed Lovers

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Nature, Time, Flower, Rose Flower

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

- Jean Giraudoux

source: Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

topic: Flower, Example, Inspirational Flower, Blossoming, Wildflowers

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

topic: Nature, Flower, Sun, Inspirational Flower, Blooming

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.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.100, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

topic: Flower, Animal, Men, Pensive, Inspirational Flower

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

- Ikkyu

source: Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

topic: Spring, Flower, Tree, Spring Flowers, Spring Poems

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

- Edmund Spenser

source: 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

topic: Time, Rose, Rose Flower, Roses And Love

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Beauty, Flower, Sunshine, Physical Beauty, Definition Of Beauty

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

- Walt Whitman

topic: Beauty, Nature, Morning, Morning Glory, Summer Flower

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.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Sweet, Flower, Blow, Thyme, Inspirational Flower

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

- Emma Goldman

topic: Life, Nature, Flower, Blooming Flower, Funny Valentines Day

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.

- Andrew Mason

topic: Flower, Rays, Would Be, Rose Flower

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.

- John Boyle O'Reilly

source: John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

topic: Flower, Passion, White, White Flowers, Falcon

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

- Iris Murdoch

source: Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Nature, Flower, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

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

- Andrew Mason

source: Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.46, Trafford Publishing

topic: Flower, Would Be, Dandelions, Flowers Growing, Fragrant Flowers

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

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine, May Flowers, Flower Garden

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.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Flower, Smell, Rose, Embellishment, Deductions

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

topic: Summer, Dream, Flower, Thyme, Inspirational Flower

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

- Martin Amis

topic: Art, Lying, Rose, Lioness, Rose Flower

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

- Thomas Moore

source: 'Irish Melodies' (1807) "Tis the last rose of summer'

topic: Blooming, Blooming Flower, Summer Flower, Faded, Rose Flower

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

- John Ruskin

topic: Flower, Humanity, Ordinary, Flowers And Gardens, Rose Flower

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

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Rain, Flower, Inspirational Rain, Plant A Tree

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

- Frederick Peterson

source: Frederick Peterson (1893). “In the Shade of Ygdrasil”

topic: Flower, Heart, Blow, Rose Flower, Roses And Love

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

- Walter Scott

topic: Hope, Dawn, Morning Dew, Hopes And Fears, Rose Flower

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

- William Carlos Williams

source: William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

topic: Rain, Flower, Compassion, Spring Flowers, Pink Flower

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.

- Rajneesh

topic: Flower, Compassion, Rose, Rose Flower