Rose Flower Quotes - Page 2

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

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• 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

  Flower, Smell, Rose

  "The Naval Treaty" (1893)

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

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Flower

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

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

  Martin Amis

  Art, Lying, Rose

  Martin Amis (2014). “Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million”, p.42, Vintage

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

  Thomas Moore

  Summer, Flower, Rose

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Flower, Compassion, Rose

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