Rose Quotes

1911 Rose quotes by 1138 unique authors

The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking… — Melissa de la Cruz
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school. — Kurt Vonnegut
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice
She rose and followed her bust from the room. — Margery Allingham
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was… — Anne Rice
By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like… — Arundhati Roy
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise,… — Charles Dickens
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. — Louisa May Alcott
Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see… — Ray Bradbury
I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything,… — Juan Ramon Jimenez
Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I would blossom if I were a rose. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment… — Cormac McCarthy
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and… — William Shakespeare
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing… — Anton Chekhov
then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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