Lilies Quotes · Page 6

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

— Ismail Kadaré

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

— Reginald Heber

Look to the lilies how they grow!

— David Macbeth Moir

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

— Thomas Campion

When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

— Amanda Hocking

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young…

— Hilda Doolittle

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

— Tracey Ullman

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

— William Shakespeare

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

— Matthew McConaughey

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

— Rumi

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has…

— Aldo Leopold

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

— David Levithan

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,…

— Solomon

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and…

— Julia Ward Howe

I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily…

— Ketch Secor

I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to…

— Anonymous

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect…

— Brenda Ueland

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air,…

— Julia Caroline Dorr

Oh, I would while away the hours, Wanking in the flowers, my heart all full of song, I'd be gliding all the…

— Christopher Moore

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train…

— John Milton

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he…

— Charles Dickens

I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars. For the first…

— Craig Stone

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the…

— James Joyce

Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I…

— James Norton

Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the…

— Rae Armantrout

The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies…

— Wendell Berry

Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years…

— Anonymous

Lily slumped, putting her shaking hands on his shoulders. "But you will, won't you?" Pansy's voice broke into a sob. "Yes, Pan,"…

— Jessica Day George

I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of…

— Therese of Lisieux

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is…

— Anonymous

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a…

— John Keats

Mary is the lily in God's garden.

— Bridget of Sweden

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

— Nalini Singh

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

— Thomas Hood

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

— David Levithan

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a…

— Christina Rossetti