Top 100 Quotes About Roses
#1. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Rose Schneiderman
#2. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. I'll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before an eclipse swallows it from the sky.
Roshani Chokshi
#4. Everything around us is roses, and we're the shit in between.
Katherine Boo
#5. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
George Eliot
#6. When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
Paige Craig
#7. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.
Osho
#8. I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.
E. Lockhart
#9. I should probably warn you, my love isn't roses and champagne. I'm obsessive, jealous, and controlling, but I'm faithful and I'll be here when you need someone.
Suzanne Steele
#10. Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Isaac Watts
#11. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
Alan Bennett
#12. I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
#13. Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear.
Virginia Woolf
#14. But she made his comics smell like roses. A whole field of them.
Rainbow Rowell
#15. He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.
Josephin Peladan
#16. The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.
Stephen King
#17. You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.
Avijeet Das
#18. Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?
Andrew Loog Oldham
#19. Oh dear God, no, stop!"
Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what?
I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on the floor. Oh God.
-Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher
#20. Daniel murmured something like yes, he wouldn't miss it,but he was clearly distracted. He kept looking away from the woman. His eyes darted around the lawn, as if he sensed Luce behind the roses.
When his gaze swept over the bushes where she crouched,they flashed the most intense shade of violet.
Lauren Kate
#21. 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
#22. Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I'm sick of this poem,
you probably are too.
Anne Mazer
#23. Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.
V.S. Carnes
#24. A shake-out cruise could be just what Guns N' Roses needed.
Duff McKagan
#25. I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.
Steve Wilkos
#26. Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that
Alex Flinn
#27. People grow couches and bikes and concrete in their front gardens instead of roses.
Leanne Hall
#28. Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
Maureen Forrester
#29. 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
#30. One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
#32. The wife of Ben-Hur, sat in her room in the beautiful villa by Misenum. It was noon, with a warm Italian sun making summer for the roses and vines outside. Everything in the apartment was Roman,
Lew Wallace
#33. need this." Maureen jogged in place. "Eighteen kindergartners on a sugar high. Every teacher in America should have their salaries doubled and get a bouquet of roses every freaking week. And a bottle of Landon Whiskey's gold label." "I
Nora Roberts
#34. We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
Clive Bell
#35. Your eyes hide a tenderness that is more sensitive than all the red roses of the world.
Avijeet Das
#36. I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
George Eliot
#37. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome. A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion, and good teeth are found all over the island.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#40. Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art, everywhere; a change of some sort had undoubtedly taken place.
Virginia Woolf
#41. One pierced moment whiter than the rest
-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
E. E. Cummings
#42. As soon seek roses in December, ice in June,
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff
Believe a woman or an epitaph
Or any other thing that's false
Before you trust in critics.
George Gordon Byron
#43. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde
#44. Noah doesn't hold hands often. In fact, it was one of the few rules I understood, and it's not lost on me how special this moment is. It's like the roses. Noah's showing me his love.
Katie McGarry
#45. Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
Criss Jami
#46. Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
Libba Bray
#47. Well," says Uncle Enzo. It is the "well" that begins the end of a
conversation. "I was going to send you some roses, but you wouldn't really be
interested in that, would you?
Neal Stephenson
#48. Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
Matthew Arnold
#49. Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.
Mickey Mantle
#50. 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
#51. For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.
Thomas Campbell
#52. The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before
Johnny Mercer
#53. I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.
Ryan Montgomery
#54. But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.
Johanna Spyri
#55. Roses are red, violets are blue,
This room's a psycho shopping zoo.
The fashion's a disaster, the mirrors are large,
And somebody left a crazy lady with needles in charge.
Debora Geary
#56. There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.
Ric Ocasek
#58. Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because
Margaret Atwood
#59. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#60. It was not in the winter
Our loving lot was cast!
It was the time of roses,
We plucked them as we passed!
Thomas Hood
#61. Love is the only thing in this whole universe, that can make the roses grow out of the swords.
Akshay Vasu
#62. Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;
Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
William Shakespeare
#63. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
Sarah J. Maas
#64. Desire, hot and thick, consumed him. Lily. He wanted to hold her, to simply savor her scent of roses.
Donna Grant
#65. In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden. The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.
Oscar Wilde
#66. And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles
#67. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Thomas Moore
#68. My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.
Omar Khayyam
#69. My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
Alfred Austin
#70. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, but Carrie White eats shit.
Stephen King
#71. Every new day
Our children's joy is as fresh as roses,
Even the birds chatter at dawn.
Scott Hastie
#72. We treat the crime capital of the United States as if it was a second Disneyland, smelling like roses, a great place to take the family or hold a convention.
Ross Macdonald
#73. Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
Charles De Gaulle
#74. ...like the roses and begonias they seemed to take and hold the richly filtered evening light.
Alan Hollinghurst
#75. If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
Martin Jacques
#76. I think that people tend to associate the word "wild" with something that is used up and dirty; but I associate the word "wild" with wildflowers, wild roses, things in fields that haven't been hurt yet! So let's be things in fields that have healed and that have grown. Let's be wild.
C. JoyBell C.
#77. A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
#78. I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#79. She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and smells of tar and roses
Anne Tyler
#80. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert
#81. A cross with yellow roses. What a fucking thing. It was like an electric chair with floral-print cushions, a bad joke.
Anonymous
#82. With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
James K. Polk
#83. Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.
Sylvia Plath
#84. O rose! the sweetest blossom,
Of spring the fairest flower,
O rose! the joy of heaven.
The god of love, with roses
His yellow locks adorning,
Dances with the hours and graces.
James Gates Percival
#85. Love won't always be sunshine and roses there is also sadness.
Auliq Ice
#86. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller
#87. A white linen tablecloth
edged with pink roses --
Mama's favorite pattern --
flowed like a bride's train
from sidewalk to curb to gutter.
Papa stared at black boot marks
crossing it like sins.
Paul B. Janeczko
#88. By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.
Arundhati Roy
#89. The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.
Dorothy Dix
#90. Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.
Alan Moore
#91. We women were facing up to life with our own our bodies as our only asset. We may not have smelled like roses, but we got to learn all about life and freedom in our own way. (Kang 1989: 11)
Kang Sok-Kyong
#92. This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Susan B. Anthony
#93. I shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
E. E. Cummings
#94. Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Friedrich Schiller
#95. When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.
Slash
#96. You know what they say. Good men stink of soil, oil, and other toil; villains smell of roses.
Anonymous
#97. We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.
Ian Brown
#98. The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.
Slash
#99. The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?
Edgar Lee Masters
