Best Lilies Sayings

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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an… — Willa Cather
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. — D. H. Lawrence
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises… — Robert Musil
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me! — Katharine Tynan
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined. — Leslie Caron
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles,… — Abraham Cowley
All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In trailing clouds of… — John Harricharan
One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld,… — Jess C Scott
I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes,… — Eliza Coupe
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. — Christina Rossetti
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish. — William Shakespeare
Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me. — Thomas Hood
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I… — Maurice Sendak
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. — Robert Browning
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? — Francis Quarles
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida!… — Henry Austin Dobson
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one… — Bliss Carman
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower… — John Masefield
And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance… — Julia Caroline Dorr
Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might… — David Macbeth Moir

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