Rose Quotes

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. (Salvador Dalí)
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. View quote
Gertrude Stein
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. View quote
Anne Brontë
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. View quote
Edmund Waller
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. View quote
Dale Carnegie
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. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. View quote
William Shakespeare
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. View quote
Dale Carnegie
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)
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. View quote
Arthur Miller
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
And the final event to himself Mr. Burke has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. View quote
Thomas Paine
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. View quote
Dylan Thomas
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead' View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose. View quote
Robert Browning
Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar. View quote
Robert Browning
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. View quote
Martin Amis
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. View quote
Don Marquis
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. View quote
William Butler Yeats
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. View quote
William Blake