Lilies Quotes

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

— William Stafford

Look to the lilies how they grow!

— David Macbeth Moir

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The calla lilies are in bloom again.

— Katharine Hepburn

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

— William Carlos Williams

“Only the lilies remind.”

— J.B. Wayne

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

— Christina Rossetti

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

— Michael Parenti

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

— Charlotte Bronte

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

— Thomas Campion

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.

— Katy Perry

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

— Bridgit Mendler

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

— Ismail Kadaré

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

— Oscar Wilde

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of…

— Katharine Tynan

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of…

— Hilda Doolittle

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was…

— Richelle Mead

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and…

— Oscar Wilde

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I…

— Diana Wynne Jones

For Lily, there was only her phantom lover, bold enough, arrogant enough, crazy enough to dare follow her here when he was…

— Christine Feehan

He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she…

— Cornelia Funke

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on…

— Anna Quindlen

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to…

— Martin Luther

Personally, I don't use fragrance, and only use essential oils. Stephan [Weiss] said, "Donna, we have to do fragrance - fragrance will…

— Donna Karan

I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . .…

— Richard Aldington

Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a…

— Christina Rossetti

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.…

— Tom Stoppard

O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and…

— William Shakespeare

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give…

— John Muir

So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent…

— Henry David Thoreau

In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the…

— Victoria Finlay

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

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven…

— e. e. cummings

The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,…

— William Shakespeare