Flower Quotes - Page 6

• And she was fair as is the rose in May.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Rose, May, Fairs

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Legend of Good Women: Easyread Large Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Nature, Rocks

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Beauty, Art, Sunshine

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• Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

  William Shakespeare

  Advice, Lady Macbeth, Toil

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

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• But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

  Anne Bronte

  Courage, Rose, Thorns

  Anne Brontë, “The Narrow Way”

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

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Journey

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

  Ruth Brown

  Foxes

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• There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

  Matsuo Basho

  Moon, Thinking

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• Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Friendship, Pride

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• You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Crush, Spring

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• I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Nature, Able

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• Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Dance, Hair, Dancing

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• To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Art, Nature

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• 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

  Animal, Men, Expression

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

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• Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Angel, Character

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 26, 1843.

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• Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

  Thomas Nash

  Beauty, Wrinkles

  Thomas Nash (1964). “Pierce Penniless his supplication to the Devil: Summer's last will and testament. The terrors of the night. The unfortunate traveller, and selected writings”

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• 'Tis my faith that every flower
  Enjoys the air it breathes!

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Air, Wreaths

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.341

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• The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Beautiful, Love Is, Clouds

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• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  William Wordsworth

  Smell, Shy, Sweetest

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• A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

  Paulo Coelho

  Bud, Process, Stage

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.40, Booklassic

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• Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

  Matt Haig

  Going For It, Earth, Planets

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• 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

  Dandelions, Rays, Would Be

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

  Marie Antoinette

  Love, Bed Of Roses, Thee

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Clever

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