Roses Quotes

738 Roses quotes by 500 unique authors

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
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
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall — Stevie Wonder
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden… — Alice Hoffman
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln
He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer… — Hilary McKay
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a… — Ernest Dowson
No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's… — Haruki Murakami
Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst… — Robin McKinley
I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It… — Amy Lowell
hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with… — Louisa May Alcott
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead. — Charles Bukowski
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted… — Charles Bukowski
You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too. — John Steinbeck
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown… — Marquis de Sade
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
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the… — Christina Rossetti
Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white,… — Melissa de la Cruz
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn… — Max Lucado
When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth. — Therese of Lisieux
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and… — William Butler Yeats

Who Wrote These Roses Quotes

500 authors contributed a total of 738 Roses Quotes, led by these top contributors: