Orchid Quotes

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

— Robyn

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

— Joe Schreiber

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

— Susan Orlean

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

— Myrtle Reed

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

— Confucius

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

— Geoffrey Knight

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

— Lauren Willig

“My revenge fiction characters are like the orchid, who dares to bloom while its keeper is away on holiday!”

— Gwen Hullah

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

— Oscar Wilde

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me…

— Lee Radziwill

“In a sense, then, the number of orchid species on the planet is uncountable because it is constantly changing.”

— Susan Orlean

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

— Larry McMurtry

More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink…

— Lawrence Osborne

I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid…

— Dylan Moran

“Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. That has always been part of its charm, Laroche loved orchids, but I came to believe…

— Susan Orlean

The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to…

— Lawrence Osborne

An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is…

— Leatrice Eiseman

While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and…

— Leatrice Eiseman

Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why…

— Sam Hamill

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

— Maryrose Wood

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

— Marja-Liisa Vartio

The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll…

— Susan Orlean

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

— Tennessee Williams

“She made amazing artwork. While I focused on the absurd, trying to make the strangest juxtapositions possible, her work was delicate and…

— Jarod Kintz

“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…

— Susan Orlean

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I looked up at the moon and stars through the glass roof above and gasped at the stunning sight, like a mural…

— Sarah Jio

“Being an orchid hunter has always meant pursuing beautiful things in terrible places.”

— Susan Orlean

“The mind interprets the real world and this is as real as real can be but you have to ask yourself, how…

— Steve Merrick