My revenge fiction characters are like the orchid, who…

Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.

— Najib Razak

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

— Anonymous

“There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?”

— Larry McMurtry

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

— Oscar Wilde

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

— Confucius

“He may not answer me at first, but that is no matter. I have someone to talk to, at last! My words will be…

— Maryrose Wood

“In her mind, the orchid was still screaming.”

— Joe Schreiber

“George thrust into Alma's hand a lithograph of a spotted 'Catasetum.' The orchid had been rendered so magnificently that it seemed to grow off…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.…

— Lauren Willig

“Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here.…

— Susan Orlean

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman…

— Tennessee Williams

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

— Susan Orlean

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

— Myrtle Reed

“What turns an honest, good-looking guy like you into a theif?" Scott couldn't help but smirk. "I blame chocolate.”

— Geoffrey Knight

“But like a forest I rise, like a plateau I open, I writhe like roads and fields. I push up trees till they meet…

— Marja-Liisa Vartio