Quotes About Carnations

#1. To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.

Ruth Pitter

#2. Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

Matthew Arnold

#3. For these dances the boys send corsages, which I keep afterward and keep in my bureau drawer; squashed carnations and brown-edged rosebuds, wads of dead vegetation, like a collection of floral shrunken heads.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season
Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
Which some call nature's bastards.

William Shakespeare

#5. The carnations in his coat were drooping with the cold, he noticed, their red glory all over.

Willa Cather

#6. (Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.

Marisha Pessl

#7. I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#8. I hear the carnations talking over the drone of white noise in the background. They're saying how painful it is to be snipped at the stems, complaining about the quality of the water they're swimming in, asking to be put back into the ground so they can die in peace.

A.G. Howard

#9. And so you paint pagodas and carp and phoenixes, but you also paint English country houses, and churches and coats of arms, the crucifixion, inscriptions in Persian and Arabic, carnations and tulips, mottos in Latin and knights in armour and Andromeda. v

Edmund De Waal

#10. I know what the structure of the language is.

Kurt Loder

#11. My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

Gracie Allen

#12. I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

Julie Bowen

#13. I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

Magic Johnson

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

Paul Weller

#15. You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?

Amanda Hocking

#16. Coincidence is fate pulling strings." - Unknown

Joe Hart