Flowers Quote by Robert Herrick

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

— Anonymous

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

— Emily Bronte

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

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets,…

— Victor Hugo

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

— John Barrymore

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

— Anonymous

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.

— Shirley Jackson

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought,…

— Jean Ingelow

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

— John Dryden

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

— James Joyce

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

— George Eliot