Flowery Quotes
39 quotes by 38 authors
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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
— Robert Burns
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
— Deborah Smith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
— Alexander Pope
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I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.
— Ben Jonson
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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
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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
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I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
— Ellie Goulding
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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
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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
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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
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The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.
— William C. Bryant
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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
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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
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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
— Frank Knox
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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
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The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
— Brigham Young
Who Wrote These Flowery Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 39 Flowery Quotes, led by these top contributors: