Top 100 Quotes About Roses
#1. Take time to smell the roses but be careful of the bees.
Tyler Perry
#2. I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
Jonah Hill
#4. I'm wondering. Shall we say its perfect for the sea and the sunlight - and the other Rose is perfect for candlelight? And perhaps what's most perfect of all is to find there are several Roses?
Dodie Smith
#5. Love for one another is built on the actions we take. Words that are said, are used for short comfort; but little do we know lies can be hidden in the riddle. Tread carefully through the puddle of roses for there, thorns await.
Ochir Napoleoni
#7. But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.
Elizabeth Wein
#8. The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
#9. I hide my distress, just like
the blessed birds hide themselves
when they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and your
indifference to my sadness, my loved-one!
Omar Khayyam
#10. Once you decide to grow out the roses from your heart, and let it spread the roots all over. you should also start to learn to handle the thorns that grow out of their stem.
Akshay Vasu
#11. The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
Fergie
#12. Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that
Oscar Wilde
#13. I feel wonderful. I feel like roses and sunshine and glitter.
V.E Schwab
#15. Roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.
Katherine Mansfield
#16. It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood.
Jodi Picoult
#17. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#18. How I loved the feasts! ... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God! ... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#19. If you're stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It's the size of a postage stamp, but the roses are the size of poodles. So it sort of evens out. -Austin
Katherine Applegate
#20. People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.
Wendy Harmer
#21. As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.
James Oppenheim
#22. Living with a whore
even the best whore in the world
isn't a bed of roses.
Henry Miller
#23. Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.
Rajneesh
#24. I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. those whom love has held, has held here in time
curious, in this labyrinth of roses - it
will go on holding, though in cruelty - of
stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.
John Daniel Thieme
#26. The roses once grew there, and well their lives conceal; the ivy cobbled up their voices, and made me not to feel.
Amy N. Edwards
#27. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Nikola Tesla
#28. And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.
Mary Oliver
#29. Roses are red
Violets are blue
Be very afraid
We're coming for you.
Gena Showalter
#30. Bratva men don't come at a woman with champagne and roses, they come with black roses, Glocks, switchblades, and game; because...
they take what they want.
Suzanne Steele
#31. Love is the synthesis of dream and actuality; love is the only matrix of the unprecedented; love is the tree which buds lovers like roses.
Angela Carter
#32. The kiss was flight, the kind of kiss that had magic I hadn't known existed. Or maybe it was the kind of kiss that I had known long before but had all but forgotten, like the scent of roses once they're no longer in bloom.
Ute Carbone
#33. There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
Thomas Campion
#34. Roses are red, violets are blue. You may not know it, but someone loves you.
Meg Cabot
#35. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ...
William Shakespeare
#36. Above us hung a tapestry of silver and gold and palest green that in my world had faded into white: a great oak so entwined with ivy it had died, its bare branches pushing through the leaves like bone. I stared at the roses, wanting to hold my hands to such red, but like the light, they burned cold.
Patricia A. McKillip
#37. There is no such thing as cool--follow your enthusiasms honestly. The few records you ever bought to impress stay in their sleeves...
Except for the Stone Roses' first one Ooooh lovely.
Joseph Galliano
#38. It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.
Sondra Faye
#39. Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.
Gena Showalter
#40. Roses are red, violets are blue, get in my bed and be ready to screw.
K. Bromberg
#41. A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off the scent of cloves on rainy days, ensuring that a gardener's hands will smell sweet for hours after pruning the canes.
Alice Hoffman
#42. I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
Amy Winehouse
#43. Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.
Leonard Nimoy
#44. Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey."
"That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age."
"Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses.
Joss Stirling
#45. The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.
Cathleen Schine
#46. It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes
You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.
Edgar A. Guest
#47. Roses are wilting, Violets are dead,
The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head.
WeeKittyAndTAT
#48. I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.
Yannis Philippakis
#49. Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.
Richard Hovey
#50. Roses do not bloom to earn praise,
but do so to decorate the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance.
Osho
#52. When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
Mary Oliver
#53. Though roses have thorns, they are still worth more than daises.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. She threw open the window to breathe in the spring air, heavy with the sweet perfume of roses and heather. To her right was the rolling glen beckoning her to come and walk. 'Sit here awhile and dream your thoughts on this flat rock.' How often had she done that?
Karen Ranney
#55. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#56. Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
Orison Swett Marden
#58. There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
Alice Hoffman
#59. A blush of roses on my face. [ ... ] I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks, as they float around the frame of my body, as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage.
Tahereh Mafi
#60. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Olga Broumas
#61. It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
George William Curtis
#62. Red roses symbolizes love. Thorns will hurt you and red roses consists of thorns.
Monika Ramzy
#63. Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
Stephen Gardiner
#64. I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
A. J. McLean
#65. To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
Williston Fish
#66. As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.
Alan Watts
#67. He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
Helen Simonson
#68. The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle
#69. I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain.
Alyxandria Harvey
#70. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
LeCrae
#71. I Din't finish speakin' my cure 'cos Roses schnockoed my face so hard the ground dived forward an' I crashed my jaxy.
David Mitchell
#72. If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
G.K. Chesterton
#75. If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
Epictetus
#76. There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that ... but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.
Charles Bukowski
#77. You should eat. It's going to be a rough day for you. Finding out the world isn't all sunshine and roses takes a lot out of you
Pam Logan
#78. After the winter of thorns came spring. The roses would bloom again. But if she lost Mr. Morland, she'd be chopping down the whole bush. Killing the thorns, to be sure, but killing the beautiful roses too. Just because she couldn't always see the flowers didn't mean they were not still there.
Julie Daines
#79. Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere
Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise
Diana Rasmussen
#80. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses.
Kurt Vonnegut
#83. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
#84. When I opted to work with you, I didn't expect to live a danger-free life full of roses. It was my choice that took me to where I am now.
Shaine Lake
#85. I didn't like roses. They reminded me of the women in my life: beautiful and bright, but if you touched them they made you bleed.
Tarryn Fisher
#86. He'll probably pick you up in a limo filled with fucking roses. I hope he sits on a thorn. - Dylan Mead
H.R. Willaston
#87. We are guided by roses, the scent of a page.
Patti Smith
#88. I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.
Nema Al-Araby
#89. Nice guys are easy to spot because they're so few and far between, like roses in a field of weeds.
C.M. Stunich
#90. The truth was she did love him. She loved him for the gentle care he gave her roses. For his loving way with animals. For his honesty. For his tender patience with Maggie and, most important, for the joy he brought into her life.
Debbie Macomber
#91. Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
Benny Hill
#92. to every kid in Georgetown and in all "the Gardens" of the world: your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be roses that grow in the concrete.
Angie Thomas
#93. I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.
LeBron James
#94. Others died, but it happened in the past,
The season (as all men know) most favorable for death.
Is it possible that I, subject of Yaqub Almansur,
Must die as roses had to die and Aristotle?
Jorge Luis Borges
#95. She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together.
Kiera Cass
#96. The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.
Robert Dodsley
#97. He remembered lesson #76.5 from Man Decorum 101: Never tell a smart, pissed-off female what to do. Ask her. Nicely. Preferably with roses in hand.
Stephanie Rowe
#98. Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
Rachel Platten
#99. You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.
Sharon G. Larsen
#100. Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable?
Rumi
