Roses And Love Quotes

• 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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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• The sweetest flower that blows,
  I give you as we part.
  For you it is a Rose,
  For me it is my heart.

  Frederick Peterson

  Flower, Heart, Blow

  Frederick Peterson (1893). “In the Shade of Ygdrasil”

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Flower, Rose

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
  Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
  Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
  The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Air, Glowing

  'The Sensitive Plant' (1820) pt. 1, l. 29

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• Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Flower, Romantic Love

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

  Marie Antoinette

  Love, Flower, Bed Of Roses

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

  Bette Midler

  Spring, Winter, Snow

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• Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Love, Rose, Stem

  Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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• How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.299, University of Georgia Press

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• Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Life, Flower, Garden

  To a young lady; attributed

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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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• If love were what the rose is,
  And I were like the leaf,
  Our lives would grow together
  In sad or singing weather.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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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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• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Birthday, Anniversary

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

  Walter Scott

  Motivational, Hope, Expectations

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.210

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• Truths and roses have thorns about them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Rose, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.73, Heron Dance Press

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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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• Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flower, Rose, Stem

  Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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• She bathed with roses red,
  And violets blew.
  And all the sweetest flowres
  That in the forrest grew.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Rose, Red

  Edmund Spenser (2003). “The Faerie Queene”, p.704, Penguin UK

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