Clear Quote by Francis Quarles

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

— Thomas Hood

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

“BEAUTIFUL LILY PETALS Walking down our street towards the house I notice some beautiful white lily petals on the pavement in front of a…

— Tim Bradford

“the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of…

— Thérèse de Lisieux

“White contains a balance of all colors in the spectrum, representing both the positive and negative aspects of all colors. Given it’s properties and…

— Chantal Larocque

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its…

— Julia Caroline Dorr

There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this…

— Pliny the Elder

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

— John Keats

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so…

— John Muir

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

White is pure and simple and matches with everything.

— Christian Dior

“It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall…

— Aidan Chambers