Roses And Love Quotes:

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

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

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

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

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

And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air, The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Flower, Air, Glowing, Fainting, Roses And Love

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

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

- Marie Antoinette

topic: Love, Flower, Rose, Bed Of Roses, Posies

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Soulmate Love

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

- Emma Goldman

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

topic: Love, Relationship, Anniversary, Husband Love, Husband To Be

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

- Bette Midler

topic: Spring, Winter, Snow, White Rose, Roses And Love

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

source: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

topic: Love, Rose, Stem, Roses And Love

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Nature, Morning, Wrinkles, Morning Dew, Roses And Love

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

source: To a young lady; attributed

topic: Life, Flower, Garden, Rose Garden, Roses And Love

O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

- Robert Burns

source: 'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

topic: Love, Sprung Up, Rose, Sprung, Red Rose

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

topic: Life, Weather, Rose, Roses And Love, Beautiful Rose

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared.

- Tupac Shakur

topic: Rose, Long, Grew, Red Rose, Roses And Love

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

- Robert Browning

topic: Love, Birthday, Anniversary, Marriage Speech, Marriage Toast

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

- Walter Scott

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

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Flower, Rose, Literature, Roses And Love

Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.

- Robert Burns

source: 'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

topic: Love, Life, Wedding, Sprung, Simile

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Flower, Rose, Stem, Roses And Love

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

- Edmund Spenser

source: Edmund Spenser (2003). “The Faerie Queene”, p.704, Penguin UK

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

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