Top 100 Myrtle Quotes
#1. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
George Crabbe
#2. Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
Felicia Hemans
#3. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
Lord Byron
#4. E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.
Joseph Addison
#5. It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
Robert Browning
#6. I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain about this timeframe because I have been watching the crepe myrtle outside the window of the room I am in...
Jason Leclerc
#7. Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs.
Fr James Groenings
#8. Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.
Khalil Gibran
#9. I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
Mos Def
#10. Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.
James Montgomery
#11. Moaning Myrtle burst into anguished sobs and fled from the dungeon. Peeves shot after her, pelting her with moldy peanuts, yelling, Pimply! Pimply!
J.K. Rowling
#12. Smell brings to mind ... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
Diane Ackerman
#13. Spoken by Myrtle: " she smiled slowly, walking through her husband.
Spoken by Jordan: "large parties are so intimate.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#14. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
Lord Byron
#15. I want to be a bad example,' she said. 'I see.' Myrtle stirred herself, ready to walk to the prow. 'Well, my dear, I think you have made an excellent start.
Frances Hardinge
#16. MOANING MYRTLE: What did you call me? Do I moan? Am I moaning now? AM I? AM I? SCORPIUS: No, I didn't mean . . . MOANING MYRTLE: What's my name? SCORPIUS: Myrtle. MOANING MYRTLE: Exactly - Myrtle. Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the moaning.
J.K. Rowling
#17. I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to go to Myrtle Beach. I'm 22 now. I'm learning a lot about life, and it's all in front of the cameras.
Kellie Pickler
#18. He fell asleep and again dreamt of being rowed by two myrtle trees, except this time they rowed through the stars to the moon, and it was quiet, and while everything went on forever the stars were as knowable and as safe and as comforting a world as that of the rainforested rivers.
Richard Flanagan
#19. But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.
Lydia Davis
#20. I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
Alice Hoffman
#22. Nor myrtle
which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#23. Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the moaning. SCORPIUS:
J.K. Rowling
#24. The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
Dorothea Dix
#25. Our last day in Myrtle Beach until next year. By then we'll be all freaked out because we'll be full-blown teenagers with changing bodies we don't understand - so we need to enjoy life while we're still half-way kids.
Lady Jenniviere
#26. I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as "historical factorials." Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as present-day Myrtle but as the product of all her past experiences.
John Allen Paulos
#27. Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favor ...
J.K. Rowling
#28. Gertrude reckoned sherry had been as much to do with Myrtle's early retirement as had the demands of celebrating Diwali.
John Wiltshire
#29. There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
Khalil Gibran
#30. Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#31. Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.
Gerald Durrell
#32. The inspiration for Moaning Myrtle was the frequent presence of a crying girl in communal bathrooms, especially at the parties and discos of my youth. This does not seem to happen in male bathrooms, so I enjoyed placing Harry and Ron in such uncomfortable and unfamiliar territory.
J.K. Rowling
#33. My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
Mickey Gilley
#34. No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.
Leigh Bardugo
#35. I felt a little like saying 'Eeeeeeeeek!' myself, but seeing Myrtle so afraid reminded me that I was British, and must be brave.
Philip Reeve
#36. Changing Myrtle Beach? It makes me feel very good ... If it's changing, it's changing for the positive.
Barbara Eden
#37. That's what the myrtle means. Myrtle for marriage, ivy for faithfulness, ferns for sincerity, and rosemary for remembrance.
Jude Knight
#39. Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
Myrtle Reed
#40. When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
Myrtle Reed
#41. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
#43. I've always thought my flowers had souls.
Myrtle Reed
#45. When one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
Myrtle Reed
#46. In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.
Myrtle Reed
#47. I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
Myrtle Reed
#48. The world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!
Myrtle Reed
#49. Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
Myrtle Reed
#50. When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
Myrtle Reed
#51. No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
Myrtle Reed
#52. A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
Myrtle Reed
#53. Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
Myrtle Reed
#54. Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.
Myrtle Reed
#55. Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Myrtle Reed
#56. One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
Myrtle Reed
#57. A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
Myrtle Reed
#58. Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ...
Myrtle Reed
#59. Builders build.
Destroyers come behind builders to destroy their works.
They cannot.
The legacy is already planted.
Myrtle Brooks
#60. I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
Myrtle Reed
#61. The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us - and to which we have no right.
Myrtle Reed
#62. I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.
Myrtle Fillmore
#63. It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
Myrtle Reed
#64. As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
Myrtle Reed
#65. After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.
Myrtle Reed
#66. The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.
Myrtle Reed
#67. A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
Myrtle Reed
#68. There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.
Myrtle Reed
#69. Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
Myrtle Reed
#70. There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.
Myrtle Reed
#71. [On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.
Myrtle Reed
#72. Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
Myrtle Reed
#73. Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
Myrtle Reed
#74. Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
Myrtle Reed
#75. A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.
Myrtle Reed
#76. Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.
Myrtle Reed
#77. Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
Myrtle Reed
#78. The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
Myrtle Reed
#79. It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
Myrtle Reed
#82. Keep on praying for faith, it is through prayer that you develop all your wonderful qualities of soul.
Myrtle Fillmore
#83. When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
Myrtle Reed
#84. Sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
Myrtle Reed
#85. It always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.
Myrtle Reed
#87. Each separate flower has a magic all its own.
Myrtle Reed
#88. The truth came to me-a great revelation, showing me that I have a child to the Jones whole and perfect mind, created to express the health that God with.
Myrtle Filmore
#89. Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Myrtle Reed
#90. One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
Myrtle Reed
#91. Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
Myrtle Reed
#92. Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
Myrtle Reed
#93. For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.
Myrtle Reed
#94. Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.
Myrtle Reed
#95. There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
Myrtle Reed
#96. If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
Myrtle Reed
#97. Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
Myrtle Reed
#98. At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
Myrtle Reed
#99. May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
Myrtle Reed
