Rose Quotes - Page 5

• Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

  Arthur Miller

  Best Friend, Smell, Trying

  Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

  Mitt Romney

  Anniversary, Mom, Morning

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

  Edmund Waller

  Sweet, Time, Lovely

  "Go, Lovely Rose!" l. 1 (1645)

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• Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
  Queen rose so fair and sweet.
  What were lover or crown to thee,
  without the clay at thy feet?

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Beautiful, Sweet, Queens

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• Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Bed Of Roses, Battle

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• You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Dog, Responsibility

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

  Robert Browning

  June, Bounds

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.239, Wordsworth Editions

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• Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.

  James Cameron

  Dream, Years, Smell

  "Titanic". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• O rose, who dares to name thee?
  No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
  But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,
  Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Flower, Years

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.409

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• The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Simple

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• If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Scent

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

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Flower, May, Fairs

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

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• Oh my luve's like a red, red rose,
  That's newly sprung in June;
  Oh my luve's like the melodie
  That's sweetly played in tune.

  Robert Burns

  Love, Life, Wedding

  'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Food, Vegetables

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

  Ray Bradbury

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

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• Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

  Dorothy Parker

  Perfect, Luck, Limousines

  "One Perfect Rose" l. 9 (1926)

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• Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower:
  Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

  Thomas More

  Art, Flower, Sky

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• Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what’s not on the list? Sane.

  Richelle Mead

  Sexy, Thinking, Trying

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.969, Penguin

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• She wore a wreath of roses,
  The night that first we met.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Flower, Night, Firsts

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.131

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• Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends." "That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.

  Richelle Mead

  Daughter, Father, Said

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.24, Penguin

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• Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

  Steven Moffat

  Doctors, Sound, Aliens

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• Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

  James Cameron

  Men, Way, Titanic Movie

  "Titanic". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Flower

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Love, Stem, Roses And Love

  Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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