December Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

...I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow...

— Emily Bronte

“After vindictive winter, apple blossoms seem all the more heaven-sent. Among flashing forsythia and budding rose, dogwood and daffodil, The allure of magnolia, azalea…

— David B. Lentz

Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up…

— Celia Thaxter

The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the…

— William C. Bryant

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

— George Ade

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night's decay Ushers in a drearier day.

— Emily Brontë

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

— Ruben Dario

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

— James M. Barrie

The roses have wilted, The violets are dead, Sugar is lumpy And so is your head.

— Anonymous

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season…

— William Shakespeare

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

— William Shakespeare

Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi'…

— John Clare