Thorn Quotes

But he, that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. (Anne Brontë)
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. View quote
Emil Cioran
So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. View quote
Robert Bridges
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. View quote
Robert Browning
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. View quote
Martin Amis
Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Is love a tender thing It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like thorn. View quote
William Shakespeare
Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn. View quote
Holly Black
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement. (Maimonides)
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn. View quote
Alexander Pope
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein. View quote
André Maurois
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Happy (if mortals can be) is the man, Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span: Reason, to its possessor a sure guide, Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. View quote
Thomas Chatterton
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat'ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. View quote
William Blake
A stranger's rose is but a thorn. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
Before man's fall the rose was born, St. Ambrose says, without the thorn; But for man's fault then was the thorn Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it. View quote
Neil Young
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. (Francesca Lia Block)
I see time away hasn't made you any more charming. (Fang) Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can tell we're going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang) Just remember one thing, world. I'm the best friend you'll ever have or the last enemy you'll ever make. (Thorn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon