Top 18 Carnation Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Carnation

#1. To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

#2. The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

#3. In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I do not have an Uncle Theobald, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate nothing but salads for the entire month anyway. In

Neil Gaiman

#4. I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.

Lauren Willig

#5. And in my flower-beds,
I think,
Smile the carnation
and the pink.

Rupert Brooke

#6. If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals ...

Paul Weller

#7. My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

Josh Turner

#8. she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor.

Amanda Eyre Ward

#9. This clockwork twin of mine halted before me, her bowels churning out a settecento minuet, and offered me the bold carnation of her smile. Click, click
she raises her arm and busily dusts my cheeks with pink, powdered chalk that makes me cough; then thrusts towards me her little mirror.

Angela Carter

#10. You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.

Wendi Cassel

#11. The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

Joan Didion

#12. Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#13. His father read aloud, quietly, his voice steady and gentle, while he pressed a hand to Liam's delicate back, supporting his position.
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She realized Dragos was reading the quarterly profit percentages from a stockholders' report.

Thea Harrison