Red Rose Quotes

• A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, Flower, Garden

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Love and a red rose can't be hid.

  Thomas Holcroft

  Short Love, Rose, Red

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• The red rose whispers of passion,
  And the white rose breathes of love;
  O, the red rose is a falcon,
  And the white rose is a dove.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Flower, Passion, White

  John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Sweet, Rose, Lovely

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

  E. Nesbit

  Rose, Dew, Green

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.5161, Delphi Classics

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• Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

  Saint Augustine

  Cute, Two, Giving

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• O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

  Robert Burns

  Love, Sprung Up, Rose

  'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, Littles, Little Things

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• A gratitude-heart
  Is to discover on earth
  A Heaven-delivered rose

  Sri Chinmoy

  Gratitude, Heart, Rose

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• I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world

  Louis Armstrong

  Nature, Blessed, Dark

  Song: What A Wonderful World

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• Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

  Tupac Shakur

  Long, Rose, Grew

  "The Rose that Grew from Concrete".

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• Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Flower

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

  Jim Carrey

  Love Is, Rose, Our Love

  "Fictional character: The Mask". "The Mask", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Oh my luve's like a red, red rose,
  That's newly sprung in June;
  Oh my luve's like the melodie
  That's sweetly played in tune.

  Robert Burns

  Love, Life, Wedding

  'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

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• Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Pain, Thinking

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• I cast my heart into my rhymes,
  That you, in the dim coming times,
  May know how my heart went with them
  After the red-rose-bordered hem.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flower, Heart, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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• Here bloom red roses, dewy wet,
  And beds of fragrant mignonette.

  Goodale Sisters

  Flower, Rose, Bed

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• Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Rose, Black

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• My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

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• Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

  Ruskin Bond

  Rose, Red, Lovers

  Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.38, Penguin Books India

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• I know a little garden close
  Set thick with lily and red rose,
  Where I would wander if I might
  From dewy dawn to dewy night.
  And have one with me wandering.

  William Morris

  Flower, Night, Garden

  William Morris (1872). “The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem”, p.85

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• My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still, my dear, Till all the seas gang dry. Till all the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt with the sun; I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands of life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only love. And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my love, Though it were ten thousand mile.

  Robert Burns

  Running, Art, Love Is

  Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”

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• She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Dancing, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Nightingale and the Rose”, p.3, Booklassic

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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Garden, White

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