Orchids Quotes

41 Orchids quotes by 35 unique authors

Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good… — Rachel Cusk
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,… — Marcel Proust
Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely! — Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your… — Toni Morrison
If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he… — Karen Marie Moning
I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get… — Justina Chen
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.… — Scott Westerfeld
She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the… — Jerry Spinelli
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. — Oscar Wilde
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra… — Tony Kushner
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. — Lynn Viehl
You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I… — Erin Morgenstern
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”,… — Brennan Manning
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet. — Nirvana
I love, oh God, I shouldn't say this, I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead. — Stephen Moyer

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