Lily Quotes

120 Lily quotes by 85 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish. — William Shakespeare
The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me. — Thomas Hood
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
C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be… — John Muir
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body… — John Muir
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like… — Victoria Finlay
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another.… — Anne Lamott
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings,… — Jerry Saltz
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to… — Sue Monk Kidd
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a… — Gaston Leroux
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton
When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell… — Sue Monk Kidd
There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart… — Edith Wharton
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Who Wrote These Lily Quotes

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