Lilies Quotes

• The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

  Rumi

  Love Yourself, Rose, Self Love

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• Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Flower, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

  Christina Rossetti

  White

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.124, Everyman's Library

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• A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rose, It Is What It Is

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A lily of a day
  Is fairer far in May,
  Although it fall and die that night,
  It was the plant and flower of light.
  In small proportions we just beauties see,
  And in short measures life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Flower, Fall, Night

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

  Thomas Campion

  Romantic, Girl, Eye

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• The lilies say: Behold how we
  Preach without words of purity.

  Christina Rossetti

  Purity, Preaching

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Life, Girl, Clouds

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• Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Silence, Soul

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Faber & Faber

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• Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Pride, Desire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.235, Penguin

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• The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

  Heinrich Heine

  Love, Rose, Sun

  Heinrich Heine (1856). “Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs”, p.109

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• Look to the lilies how they grow!

  David Macbeth Moir

  Looks, Grows, Saviour

  David Macbeth Moir (1860). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir [Delta]”, p.240

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

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• We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

  Tori Amos

  Pads, Fairy, Leafs

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• Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Bird, Kingdoms, Firsts

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• The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

  William Blake

  Humble, Sheep, White

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.84, eBookIt.com

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• The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Law, Rose

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• I have desired to go
  Where springs not fail,
  To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
  And a few lilies blow.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Spring, Blow, Paradise

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

  Emily Dickinson

  Commandments

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson (1958). “The letters”, Belknap Press

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• Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Smell, Sonnet

  Sonnet 94

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• Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Flower, Blow, Looks

  David Macbeth Moir (1860). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir [Delta]”, p.240

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• So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

  John Muir

  Fall, Angel, Sunshine

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• The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Rose, Faces, Strive

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• The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

  Thomas Hood

  White, Saint, Mates

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.220

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• Your name is written on my heart, Lily

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Names, Written

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Lord of the Abyss and Desert Warrior: Lord of the Abyss\Desert Warrior”, p.267, Harlequin

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