Lilies Quotes - Page 3

• Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Kissing, Apples, Body

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• The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

  Oswald Chambers

  Stars, People, Heaven

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.200, Discovery House

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• In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Water Lily, Hell

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• One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

  Jess C Scott

  Hands, Purple, White

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.49, jessINK

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• Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.

  William Wordsworth

  Praise, Daisies, Pansies

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.139

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• There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

  Rumi

  Love, Religious, Kissing

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• The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die'
  But if that flow'r with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Weed, Sweet

  Sonnet 94

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• All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

  Reginald Farrer

  War, Garden, Cottages

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• And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Hands, White, Stills

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.369

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• Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

  William Shakespeare

  Mistress, Fields

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.130

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• Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

  Edith Wharton

  Substance, Literature, Easy

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.33, VM eBooks

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• Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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• C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

  John Muir

  Thinking, Soul, Saint

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• To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Letting Go, Mean, Self

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• Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

  Francis Quarles

  Flower, White, Perfect

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.328

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• God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Rich, Poor, Made

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Love Is, White

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Thoughtful, Ideas

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• And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Prayer, Night, Light

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Flower, Two, Three

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

  Jerry Saltz

  Light, Water Lily, Giving

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• I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

  Richard Aldington

  Happiness, Dark, Garden

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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• I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sweet, Garden, White

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.28

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• The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Freedom, Rain, Water Lily

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