Roses Quotes

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman

All the world glows with roses, roses, roses.
- Saul Chernihovsky

One may live without bread, not without roses.
- Jean Richepin

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
- Thomas More

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
- Ernest Dowson

Because it is sure of its beauty, the rose makes terrible demands on us.
- Alain Meilland

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau

...a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
- Clive Bell

Oh, no man knows through what wild centuries roves back the rose. - Walter de la Mare

When love came first to Earth, the Spring spread rose-beds to receive him.
- Thomas Campbell

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
- George William Curtis

They that have roses never need bread.
- Dorothy Parker

A rose is a rose is a rose.
- Gertrude Stein

'Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.
- Thomas Moore

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
- Victor Hugo

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
- T. S. Eliot

A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn.
- Rumi

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
- Emily Bronte

Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
- William Cullen Bryant

And I will make thee beds of roses
- Christopher Marlowe

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
- Song of Solomon

Let me bring you songs from the wood, poppies red & roses filled with summer rain, to heal the wounds and still the pain.
- Jethro Tull

A flower unplucked is but left to the falling,
And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.
- Robert Frost