Even Roses Have Thorns Quotes

#1. Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns.

Jean Sasson

#2. Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness. "I've always loved them for their beauty and their scent, but--"
"It's because of their thorns." His muscles tensed at her touch. "Because there's more to them than first meets the eye.

Renee Ahdieh

#3. Roses have thorns. That's the price of roses. When you start to forget that, that's when things go wrong.

T. Kingfisher

#4. As sure as roses will have thorns, love will bring you pain

Teresa Bodwell

#5. The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses.

Antonia Michaelis

#6. I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.

Kangin

#7. How many times have answers been so simple and yet someone is determined to take the path of thorns instead of roses?" "It's not earned." "That's a very human thing to say." "An inclination I can't help." "It's not about things that are earned, but just things as they are.

Roshani Chokshi

#8. Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery.

Kerri Maniscalco

#9. Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

Henry Miller

#11. Don't be sad that roses have thorns.
Be glad that thorns have Roses.
Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Lee Child

#12. It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life's thorns

Marquis De Sade

#13. Mother used to say, "Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery." Mother

Kerri Maniscalco

#14. People complain because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses because I have finally learned not to pick them the next time around.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

Rumi

#16. I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!

John Pawson

#17. There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Marquis De Sade

#18. The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#19. The thorns, ruthless in their protection of the beauty they upheld, tore at my skin, bleeding me like a vampire's victim and no doubt loving every moment of it. The vines snaked around my hands and arms trying to cut the circulation of blood.

Alistair Cross

#20. two feet tall,
the crimson-budded roses,
their young thorns
tender in
the soft spring rain

Shiki Masaoka

#21. Moonlight and roses hide muggers and thorns." Again

Phyllis Smallman

#22. Not even thorns can stop roses from being beautiful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Francis Quarles

#25. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.

Sarah J. Maas

#26. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

#27. It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.

Charles Dickens

#28. Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Libba Bray

#29. I came to claim the one I love.

Sarah J. Maas

#30. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. "Always.

Sarah J. Maas

#32. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.

Osho