Top 100 Roses Are Quotes
#1. You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.
Avijeet Das
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, but Carrie White eats shit.
Stephen King
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.
Bill Gross
#9. Eyes. "I'm sorry for your loss, Emma," he said stepping forward, offering them to me. "The opened roses are for your parents, and the one that's still closed, is for you. With the love and support around you, it's just a matter of time before you bloom.
Cameo Renae
#10. Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles De Gaulle
#11. The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Oprah Winfrey
#12. There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?
But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.
No wind whatsoever brought you now.
Now you're here.
What you were isn't you, or else the whole rose would be here.
Alberto Caeiro
#13. How many times have answers been so simple and yet someone is determined to take the path of thorns instead of roses?" "It's not earned." "That's a very human thing to say." "An inclination I can't help." "It's not about things that are earned, but just things as they are.
Roshani Chokshi
#14. In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
Ovid
#16. Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
Hayley Mills
#17. We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how
Tupac Shakur
#18. A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
Confucius
#19. meat is cut as roses are cut
men die as dogs die
love dies like dogs die,
he said.
Charles Bukowski
#20. A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents - our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.
Alice Adams
#21. Roses are read, violets are blue; I'm using my hand, but I'm thinking of you.
L.A. Casey
#22. Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn't; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink insists; red compels. I will say to you: You are dear to me as attar of roses. Please do not get eaten.
Catherynne M Valente
#23. Reconquer the streets, the markets - the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.
Jens Stoltenberg
#24. I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.
Chloe Sevigny
#25. Dearest Annie, Roses are red. Violets are blue. I'm using my hand But I'm thinking of you. - Ronan P.S. Just to clarify, I'm using my hand to write this note ... get your mind out of the gutter.
L. H. Cosway
#26. The traditional way to use roses is in beds. These can be any shape and are an attractive, albeit conservative, choice for a formal garden. More exciting
Maggie Oster
#27. Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you.
Ralphie May
#28. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
Neil Gaiman
#29. Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Zombies are Dead
And soon you be too
- Frosty, Zombie Slayer
Gena Showalter
#30. While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.
Eli Broad
#31. Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
Martial
#32. Roses are red,
And ready for plucking,
You're sixteen,
And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.
Salma Hayek
#34. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.
Andrew Carnegie
#36. All the roses from my kingdom are red. There's no need for paint.
Ishbelle Bee
#37. The days carry the living along; the dead are left behind. It was disconcerting to discover how everything went on without Papa. The sun came up and went down, the roses bloomed, the birds sang, the stars wheeled overhead exactly as they had before
Juliet Waldron
#38. Some women are like roses
Ohh how beautiful you blossom
Yet have too many thorns to ever be held.
Jasmine Mans
#39. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her ... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#40. Roses are red, Violets are blue. I'm just a fucked up hit man, And nothing rhymes with that.
Pepper Winters
#41. Give your Friends Roses while they are still alive; don't wait until their funeral.
-Robert L. Biehl (my dad)
Bobb Biehl
#42. When you are corn and roses and at rest
I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost
To haunt the scene where I was happiest
To bend above the thing I loved the most
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#43. Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.
Jill Shalvis
#44. Sometimes the scariest things in life aren't the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn't want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses.
Tara Brown
#45. I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. O how beautiful, look at the crimson snow! And up there on the rocks there are ever so many roses!
Johanna Spyri
#47. Roses are red violets are blue, God made me pretty, what happened to you?
Rocky Quicksilver
#48. For there are no ordinary moments.
There are only precious feelings and memories we piece together one by one. We call it a lifetime.
~~ Riley Rosemont, from "Roses in Winter" by Leslie D. Stuart
Leslie D. Stuart
#49. Though what is 'Romeo and Juliet' after all?" he added after a short pause. "The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. Romeo is just the same sort of animal as all the rest of us.
Anton Chekhov
#50. The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
Maureen Johnson
#52. Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like potatoes
and so do you
Myself
#53. Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.
Robert Greene
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.
Katherine Mansfield
#57. There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. Roses are red
Violets are blue
Be very afraid
We're coming for you.
Gena Showalter
#59. Roses are red, violets are blue. You may not know it, but someone loves you.
Meg Cabot
#60. Roses are red, violets are blue, get in my bed and be ready to screw.
K. Bromberg
#61. Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.
Leonard Nimoy
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Though roses have thorns, they are still worth more than daises.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#66. We are guided by roses, the scent of a page.
Patti Smith
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Pickup line ... pickup line ... she racked her brain until she found an explanation and brightened. Mine would be - roses are red, violets are blue, if you don't do what I say I will kill you.
Gena Showalter
#70. Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironing to do
Unlikely thing to read in a valentines day card
Mock Of The Week The Show
#71. 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
#73. 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
#74. The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
Hannah More
#75. We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
Charles Bukowski
#76. There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.
Dick Latvala
#77. All roses are flowers. Some flowers fade quickly. Therefore some roses fade quickly. A large majority of college students endorse this syllogism as valid. In fact the argument is flawed, because it is possible that there are no roses among the flowers that fade quickly.
Daniel Kahneman
#78. My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.
Hester Lucy Stanhope
#79. The year is a book, isn't it, Marilla? Spring's pages are written in Mayflowers and violets, summer's in roses, autumn's in red maple leaves, and winter in holly and evergreen.
L.M. Montgomery
#80. Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match
Joshua Caleb
#81. Novels are read
Or their authors are blue.
Support Indie writers:
Buy their books, post reviews!
Cheri Gillard
#82. If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses, we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#83. If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience ... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
Aberjhani
#84. Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
Yoko Ono
#85. Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
Louisa May Alcott
#86. You are young, and I am older;
You are hopeful, I am not-
Enjoy life, ere it grow colder-
Pluck the roses ere they rot.
Abraham Lincoln
#87. Roses are red / Gender is performative / Mass-market romance / Is heteronormative
Stefanie Gray
#88. For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright!
I have twined them in my sister's locks
That are hid in the dust from sight.
Phoebe Cary
#89. What the roses are saying cannot be heard through voice
but through beauty as you watch the rain slip
from their petals and hang from their edges.
(Dena Colhoff, student)
Timothy P. McLaughlin
#90. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#91. Smiles are to people as sunshine is to the roses.
Tom Black
#93. Roses are red, tires are black, you're the only pussy I wanna ride bareback.
K. Bromberg
#94. They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson
#95. The place between actual seasons is filled with tiny roses in transition. There are murders and amputations in the garden. There are choirs on the sandy floors beneath oceans.
Kate Braverman
#96. It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#97. The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.
Holly Lynn Payne
#98. Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.
Patrick Rothfuss
#99. There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
Marquis De Sade
#100. The attentions of Wilkie Mackenzie were a conquest, an aspiration, a dream. The fresh memory of all those women, batting their eyelashes coquettishly, it boiled in my veins. One in particular. And Wilkie looked almost amused, now that his own jealousy had eased. "Are you jealous, my love?
Juliette Miller
