Quotes About Flowers As Gifts

#1. God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. I do not spoil women ... I don't send them flowers and gifts ... I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

George Sanders

#3. The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knut Hamsun

#5. One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

Barbara Holland

#6. I'm incredibly naive.

Christina Ricci

#7. For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

Martin Luther

#8. It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

David Walliams

#9. If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. The sacred being speaks at a sacred time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. When considering female human beings, we should ask ourselves what kind of organisms become overjoyed when presented with decapitated plants as gifts? I suppose we should consider ourselves fortunate they do not become overjoyed when presented with decapitated animals as gifts.

Robert Black

#13. If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Don Rickles

#14. I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Bai Ling

#15. I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants.

Amy Leigh Mercree