Rose Flower Quotes

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

  Andre Gide

  Respect, Rose, Wildflowers

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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

  Thomas Moore

  Rose, May, Vases

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

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Sweet, Rose, Lovely

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

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• Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

  John Milton

  Flower, Paradise On Earth, Rose

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

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Flower, Rose

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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

  Jean Giraudoux

  Nature, Flower, Garden

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

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• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Nature, Flower

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

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

  Beverley Nichols

  Flower, Garden, Overcoming

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Nature, Flower, Blooming

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

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

  Ikkyu

  Nature, Spring, Flower

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

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• 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

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249

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

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Flower, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

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

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• 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

  Flower, Passion, White

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

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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

  Flower, Animal, Men

  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 seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Flower, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.94

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• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

  Walter Scott

  Motivational, Hope, Expectations

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.210

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• 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

  Flower, Heart, Blow

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

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

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, Flower, Compassion

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

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

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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