Top 29 Shakespeare Flowers Quotes
#1. Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season
Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
Which some call nature's bastards.
William Shakespeare
#2. All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ...
Vijay Seshadri
#4. The tender spring upon thy tempting lip
Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:
Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.
William Shakespeare
#5. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare
#7. We're fifteen," he said. "And we found each other already? Is that possible? Can you find somebody at fifteen?
Robert B. Parker
#8. Flowers grow best on dungheaps, as Shakespeare never tires of saying.
J.M. Coetzee
#11. Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
Nick Cave
#12. If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.
Michael Jordan
#13. You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
Don Meyer
#14. Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold. The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Sc.4
William Shakespeare
#15. He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.
William Shakespeare
#17. Then, were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
William Shakespeare
#18. In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee;
Fairies use flower for their charactery.
William Shakespeare
#20. You'd be so lean, that blast of January
Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
Become your time of day.
William Shakespeare
#21. My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen ... my mother and three or four of her friends ... told stories ... with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
Paule Marshall
#22. All the English flowers came from Shakespeare. I don't know what we did before his time.
The Secret Places of the Heart
H.G.Wells
#24. Uh, Miss, you have second and third degree burns that need treatment,"he said.
"They'll be okay. I'll just use concealer for a while.
Cinda Williams Chima
#25. O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
Virginia Woolf
#27. What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#28. His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.
William Shakespeare
#29. And then I wondered if, when it poured, would it wash everything away? Even the pain I was feeling?
Jayen San Diego
