Quotes about Roses
If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.
- Euripides
then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses--
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lords of melody and song, Lords of roses burning bright, Blue will right the ancient wrong, Though the way is dark and long, Blue will shine with loving light.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
- Dorothy Sayers
I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
- Anne Reid
If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
- Matshona Dhliwayo