Quote by Honoré de Balzac

“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed, And I am…

— William Blake

“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The unhoped was all but granted her. She could labour on in the valley of the shadow of books, for a ray of dazzling…

— George Gissing

“She was a light from Heaven, and a beauty for all of us to behold.”

— J. W. Lord

“Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which…

— Edith Wharton

“All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her…

— Thomas Hardy

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard

Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You made the sobbing white of lilies too, tumbling lightly across a sea of sighs on their dreamy way to weeping moonlight through the…

— Stéphane Mallarmé

“She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.”

— J.E.B. Spredemann

“I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted…

— Graham Greene

“Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to one's self!…

— Edith Wharton