Basil Quote by George Eliot

“He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here…

— Oscar Wilde

“How is Oberon these days? Still being henpecked by that basilisk of a wife?" "Don't insult the basilisk...”

— Julie Kagawa

“Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere.”

— Robert Sylwester

“And yet, scholars said it must be a plant for the way it grew and reached toward the light. Men did that too, he…

— Brandon Sanderson

“To him, she was like a flower that bloomed in the snow. Thriving under conditions in which nothing could grow. To some, she was…

— A.Y. Greyson

“Looking at these pictures, I wonder, did that part of me that flourished around him, like prized perennials under a tender gardener's care, die…

— Lisa Schroeder

“He is out in the garden, picking a bouquet of foxgloves. He’s laughing, sunlight turning his brown hair gold… I bet he doesn’t even…

— Holly Black

“It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people's minds, they were more likely to take a look at…

— Jodi Picoult

“Why kill a flower when you can kill a human instead?”

— Jocelynn Drake

“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Her soul was poisoned soil in which nothing good could grow.”

— Laini Taylor

“If God wanted us to get high, he'd have created plants that became psychoactive when eaten or smoked.”

— Stephen Colbert