Top 100 Roses You Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.
Lauren DeStefano
#3. What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.
Andrei Sinyavsky
#4. God made a wonderful mother, a mother who never grows old; He made her smile of the sunshine, and He molded her heart of pure gold; in her eyes He placed bright shining stars, in her cheeks, faith roses you see; god made a wonderful mother, and He gave that dear mother to me.
Pat O'Reilly
#5. You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.
John Steinbeck
#6. There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty ...
Cate Tiernan
#7. Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.
Jill Shalvis
#8. Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.
Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.
(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")
Cameron Awkward-Rich
#9. 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
#10. When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
Paige Craig
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.
Avijeet Das
#14. 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
#15. Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I'm sick of this poem,
you probably are too.
Anne Mazer
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Thomas Moore
#22. Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
Charles De Gaulle
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. You know what they say. Good men stink of soil, oil, and other toil; villains smell of roses.
Anonymous
#26. when i speak to you
i speak as though
i am offering a rose
in your hand.
Sanober Khan
#27. And if you don't like me, as I do you; I understand. Because who would really choose a daisy, in a field of roses?
Unknown
#28. You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.
Bill Gross
#29. 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
#30. If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.
Patience Strong
#31. Roses are for our eyes to adore, but they mean nothing unless you give them to someone you love.
Chris Paynter
#32. Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you've grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth.
Elijah Noble El
#33. Come, come everyone, come with love, come with joy, come to my heart, there is always spring, roses always smiling, soul is always singing with joy in the light of love. I am waiting, are you coming. My heart is always ready to dance, always ready to love, always ready with a song.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Roses are red, violets are blue, if I get you in bed, it would be really cool.
Lauren Oliver
#35. You know what would be cool, next time?" said a voice behind me. "Black roses.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#36. Yes, it takes a lot of plant material to make a drop of oil, but a small drop of oil then contains the full force of the entire plant- of all of those plants. When you have a bottle of rose oil, you have the life force of 5,000 pounds of roses. That's a lot of plant. And that means a lot of life.
Andrew Edwin Jenkins
#37. Roses have thorns. That's the price of roses. When you start to forget that, that's when things go wrong.
T. Kingfisher
#38. 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
#39. As sure as roses will have thorns, love will bring you pain
Teresa Bodwell
#40. 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
#41. Daisies in water are the longest lasting
flower you can give to someone.
Fact.
Buy daisies.
Not roses.
Anne Sexton
#42. People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden ... yet they don't find what they are looking for.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#43. Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.
Eleanor Perenyi
#44. Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery.
Kerri Maniscalco
#45. However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.
Jane Porter
#46. Maybe it was just the perfect realization to all ones' dreams ... where a magic elixir could heal you and make you strong, where men could make roses bloom with the single touch of a thumb, and where the bigger women were, so much the better.
Tiffany Baker
#47. Everytime Ah see uh patch uh roses uh somethin' oversportin' theyselves makin' out they pretty, Ah tell 'em 'Ah want yuh tuh see mah Janie sometime.' You must let de flowers see yuh sometimes, heah, Janie?
Zora Neale Hurston
#48. Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness. "I've always loved them for their beauty and their scent, but--"
"It's because of their thorns." His muscles tensed at her touch. "Because there's more to them than first meets the eye.
Renee Ahdieh
#49. When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.
Marty Rubin
#50. If I have made you dream, laugh, cry and smell the roses in bloom, the salt on the sea air, then I have accomplished what I set out do. Feel the magic.
Barbara Mason
#51. You're too sacred," he continued, and his voice was husked with emotion. "You're the one. My sunlit angel. My Roses. Mine.
Juliette Miller
#52. Mother used to say, "Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery." Mother
Kerri Maniscalco
#53. I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
Rumi
#54. That's okay," you told me. "I like them better when they're dried up. I'll keep them for years. Until our Get Rid of the Roses anniversary.
David Levithan
#55. My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.'
Manti Te'o
#56. She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose] ...
Eva Ibbotson
#57. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
Alan Keyes
#58. There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects so you have something to point to when you want to make it real.
Andrea Seigel
#59. you were
and always will be
that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees
that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories.
Sanober Khan
#60. Roses are red, violets are blue, all I want to do is wrap my words around you!
David Lubkin
#61. You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.
Anton Newcombe
#62. I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
E. E. Cummings
#63. What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
Arthur Guiterman
#64. A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
Confucius
#65. If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.
Arthur Symons
#67. Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Never Ross, I heart the fuck out of you.
C.M. Stunich
#68. Roses are read, violets are blue; I'm using my hand, but I'm thinking of you.
L.A. Casey
#69. 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
#70. Two or more year ago she was out workin' in her rose garden one mornin' - did you know, boy, she's got over sixty different kinds out there? - and she said to me, said, 'Mr. Blakeslee, I wouldn't even mind dyin' if'n I could be buried in a bed of roses.
Olive Ann Burns
#71. The scary thing is that this band was founded in 1988, and back then it was Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns and , like, 'What chick am I gonna be with tonight?' - it was that mentality, you know, around a keg.
Mark McGrath
#72. When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
Rumi
#73. I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'
Bernie Siegel
#74. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#75. There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.
Ricky Gervais
#76. Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
Tupac Shakur
#77. Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill.
Groucho Marx
#78. Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. Princess," he whispered against her ear. "My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.
Teresa Medeiros
#80. If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.
Robert Stack
#81. 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
#82. they can't say I didn't love you they can't understand that some people love roses for the thorns and the way sometimes we need to be cut to feel alive and why I could walk away so calmly they said you were dead and remind me from time to time
Mark Abukoff
#83. Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you.
Ralphie May
#84. Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in your hair ... !'
'And in my heart?'
'In your womb I'll set a fly-trap!
J.G. Ballard
#86. So, the white roses and the "He's just yelling at you because he knows you're the best. Don't let him get to you," note that was on the hood of my car today wasn't from you?" I hung up.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#87. Woman, if you leave me smelling like roses . . . I'll see you regret it, he warned.
Lynn Kurland
#88. All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me ... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is ... my white plume.
Edmond Rostand
#89. I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing it on certain body areas and I might come faster.
Sarah J. Maas
#90. I'll tell you a story, ( ... ) A story about books, dragons and roses, as befits the date, but above all, a story about shadows and ashes, as befits the times ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#91. Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Zombies are Dead
And soon you be too
- Frosty, Zombie Slayer
Gena Showalter
#92. If you can love all who've betrayed you ... you can taste sweetness in everything.
Holly Lynn Payne
#93. They blossom ever where you tread ...
Wild roses bloody red.
L.J.Smith
#95. I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#96. You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.
Bruce Springsteen
#97. Roses are red,
And ready for plucking,
You're sixteen,
And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
#98. Don't act like you Galantes are all roses," he replied. "You've got more thorns than you do petals, princess." Princess
J.M. Darhower
#99. 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
#100. I have loved you from the moment you opened your eyes, and I will continue to love you long after I close mine. I will always be yours Aurora. I don't exist without you.
Nathalie Saade
