Flower Quotes by Oscar Wilde

“It was always once springtime in my heart.”

— Oscar Wilde

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

— Oscar Wilde

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

— Oscar Wilde

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

— Oscar Wilde

“Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Days in summer are apt to linger.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.”

— Oscar Wilde

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

— Oscar Wilde

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

— Oscar Wilde

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

— Oscar Wilde

“Yes, the lad was premature. He was gathering his harvest while it was yet spring.”

— Oscar Wilde

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no…

— Oscar Wilde

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

— Oscar Wilde

“Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow. . . .”

— Oscar Wilde

“One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were…

— Oscar Wilde

“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my…

— Oscar Wilde

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in…

— Oscar Wilde

“His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul,…

— Oscar Wilde

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted…

— Oscar Wilde

“Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crimson roses burst his frost, Ships tempest-tossed Will find a harbour in some bay,…

— Oscar Wilde

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a…

— Oscar Wilde

“I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in…

— Oscar Wilde

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long…

— Oscar Wilde

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even…

— Oscar Wilde

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the…

— Oscar Wilde

“I know a flower that grows in the valley, none knows it but I. It has purple leaves, and a star in…

— Oscar Wilde

“Of course to one so modern as I am, 'Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always…

— Oscar Wilde

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and…

— Oscar Wilde

And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing…

— Oscar Wilde