Rose Quotes - Page 37

• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

  Martial

  Winter, Doors, Giving

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two.

  Gerry Cheevers

  Hockey, Blue, Two

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• But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving Up, Flower, Hang In There

  'The Rose'

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Spring

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

  Amy Winehouse

  Cynical, Want, Expecting

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• Just like Love is yonder rose,
  Heavenly fragrance round it throws,
  Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose,
  And in the midst of briars it blows
  Just like Love.

  Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

  Life, Blow, Love Is

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• Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election, he'll get more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Eye, Russia, Glasses

  "Еhe third debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney". www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Morning, Dew

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 171

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• In friendship's fragrant garden,
  There are flowers of every hue.
  Each with its own fair beauty
  And its gift of joy for you.
  Friendship's Garden
  
  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

  Flower, Garden, Weather

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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• If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

  Delta Burke

  Flower, Single Rose, Faces

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• I could learn photography. That could be something to want. I could photograph children. I could have my own children. I would give them yellow roses. And if they got too loud, I would just put them some place quiet. Put them in the oven. And I would kiss them every day, and tell them you don't have to be anybody, because I would know that being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.

  Gia Carangi

  Photography, Children, Kissing

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• Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Noses, May

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 6, l. 881

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• Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

  Dorothy Parker

  Flower, Years, Another Year

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

  John Hay

  Flower, Break, Fragrance

  John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

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• Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Smell, Wells

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.185, eBookIt.com

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• The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Stars, Prayer

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.52

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• Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

  Robert Greene

  Flower, Wind, Purple

  Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson (188?). “The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Johnson”

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• The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Cheer, Growing Up, Sacrifice

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I will send a shower of roses.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Showers

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• Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

  Theodore Parker

  Flower, Hands, Years

  Theodore Parker (1871). “The Collected Works of ... P. ...”

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• Had it lived long, is would have been
  Lilies without, roses within.

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Long, Lilies

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

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Red, Violet

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

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• Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
  On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
  But on thy turf shall roses rear
  Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

  Lord Byron

  Flower, Years, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Crazy

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• Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,
  Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart
  Only to meet again more close.

  John Keats

  Flower, Air, Zephyr

  John Keats (2011). “John Keats”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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