Roses Quotes

738 Roses quotes by 500 unique authors

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. — Olga Broumas
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation. — G I Gurdjieff
What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the… — Rose Schneiderman
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too, — Rose Schneiderman
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. — Derek Jarman
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. — Unknown Author
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she… — Kenji Miyazawa
My God, I have never thanked Thee for my 'thorn!' I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never once for my… — George Matheson
September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than… — Geoffrey Hill
O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back… — William Allingham
Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud. — Austin O'Malley
If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself,… — Elif Safak
My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.' — Manti Te'o
I am thankful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr
Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference. — Andy Puddicombe
The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash… — Steven Adler
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Unknown Author
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When… — James Richardson
There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects… — Andrea Seigel
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. — Ernest Dowson
I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something — Patricia C. Wrede
I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds… — Savitri Devi
The spiritual path is not strewn with roses. — Haridas Chaudhuri

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