quotations about roses
A rose should be
Where the sun shines through
Not where the wine is red
And the smoke is blue
A rose should be
Blooming in the light
Not in a rendezvous
Blooming in the night
JIM REEVES
"Wild Rose"
The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.
LOUIS ARAGON
La Roman Inacheve
"Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear."
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Mrs. Dalloway
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
JOHN CAREY
London Times, September 20, 1981
No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
JULIUSZ SLOWACKI
attributed, Outposts, Volumes 92-103, 1972
Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
Go tell her all I fain would dare,
Tell her of hope; tell her of spring,
Tell her of all I fain would sing,
Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing.
MIKE BEVERLY
Go Pretty Rose
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
HENRI MATISSE
comment recalled in obituaries reporting his death, November 5, 1954
I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose
That blossoms in the garden of the King.
ELSA BARKER
The Mystic Rose
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
EMILY BRONTË
"Love and Friendship", Poems of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë
'Twas a yellow rose,
By that south window of the little house,
My cousin Romney gathered with his hand
On all my birthdays, for me, save the last;
And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough,
For roses to stay after.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Aurora Leigh
Faded love and winter roses
Always bloom in memory
Faded love and winter roses
Yearning hearts that used to be
HANK WILLIAMS
"Faded Love and Winter Roses"
The DNA that existed in the very first roses from millions of years ago is still present in the old garden roses of the last six hundred years and in the modern roses developed since the first modern rose in 1867. So next spring when you shop for roses, take a minute to marvel at the timeless heritage of the rose, and the work and care of generations of hybridizers who have brought us the incredibly vigorous and carefree roses of today.
CAROL CHICCI
"Gardening Etcetera: A rose is a rose was a rose", Arizona Daily Sun, September 30, 2017
Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The Name of the Wind
When your roses are lush with green, healthy leaves and beautiful, fresh and fragrant blooms, not only do they make you happy but you can tell that they are happy and healthy, too. Your roses thank you in flowers; they tell you with blooms that you are doing a great job.
RITA PERWICH
"Your roses are speaking to you -- just listen!", San Diego Union Tribune, May 5, 2017
Is anything more romantic than roses on a grave?
JAROD KINTZ
This Book is Not For Sale
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills
A rose by any other name would cost as much.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
When love came first to earth, the Spring
Spread rose-beds to receive him.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
"When Love Came First to Earth"
Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.
CRYSTAL WOODS
Write Like No One Is Reading
If you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience ... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
ABERJHANI
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black