Flowery Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. — Robert Burns
Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words. — Deborah Smith
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams… — Tom DeMarco
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet… — Wilford Woodruff
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong,… — Laurence D'Orsay
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. — Alexander Pope
I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation. — Ben Jonson
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved… — Deborah Sampson
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery… — Tim Roth
I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff. — Ellie Goulding
Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters;… — Euripides
We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose… — Artur Davis
All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and… — Henry Van Dyke
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. — William C. Bryant
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long… — Oliver Goldsmith
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. — Frank Knox
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. — Matthew Arnold
The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words. — Brigham Young

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