Quotes, aphorisms and phrases about roses, magnificent plants with characteristic thorns on the stems, available with flowers in various colors and shades, of different sizes depending on the species.
Quotes about roses
- But she was from that world where the most beautiful things have the worst fate, and pink, she lived what roses live in the space of one morning. (Francois de Malherbe)
- I will stop loving you only when a deaf painter will be able to paint the sound of a rose petal falling on a crystal floor of a castle that never existed. (Jim Morrison)
- Having prose one letter too many, the rose chose poetry. (Robert Sabatier)
- My kiss has the breath of red roses, petal that melts on the mouth. (Sergej Esenin)
- The rose is without why, it blooms because it blooms, without worrying about itself, without the desire to be seen. (Jacopo Boehme)
- In front of the faded rose, even those who previously adored its buds on their knees are blocked. (William Shakespeare)
- There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than painting a rose, because first of all he must forget all the other roses that have been painted. (Henri Matisse)
- Sometimes the rose blushes for the vase. (Jozef Bulatowicz)
- You are not at all like my squad, you are still nothing! You are beautiful, but you are empty. You can't die for you. Of course, any passerby would believe that my rose looks like you, but she, she alone, is more important than all of you, because it is she who I watered. Because she is the one I put under the glass bell. Because it is she who I repaired with the screen. Because it is she that I have heard complaining or bragging, or even sometimes being silent. Because it's my squad. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- Marriage is similar to life in this, which is a battlefield, not a bed of roses. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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- A rose, it's a rose, it's a rose. (Gertrude Stein)
- God has given us the memory so that we can have roses even in December. (James Matthew Barrie)
- It is madness to hate all roses because a thorn has stung you, to abandon all dreams because one of them has not come true, to give up all attempts because one has failed. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- Once a rose was named and it flattered me. However, I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: it is not good in a bed, but it is good against a wall. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- Sweetie, let's go and see if the rose that opened her purple dress in the sun this morning has lost a little tonight the folds of her red dress, and its color similar to yours. Alas, see how, in such a short space, sweetness, she has let her beauty fall to the ground! O truly stepmother nature, for such a flower lasts only from morning until evening. (Pierre De Ronsard)
- When you are in pessimism, look at a rose. (Albert Samain)
- The rose has its thorns, and for this reason the rose is the flower of love. (Arturo Graf)
- Summer is no less characterized by its flies and mosquitoes than by its roses and starry nights. (Marcel Proust)
- In front of the faded rose, even those who previously adored its buds on their knees are blocked. (William Shakespeare)
- It is a fate of thorns to try to enjoy the rose (Eise Osman)
- Nobody knows this little rose, it could be a pilgrim if I had not taken it from the paths and collected it for you. Only a bee will miss her, only a butterfly, hurrying from afar to rest in her bosom. Only a bird will marvel, only a breeze will sigh. Ah little rose, how easy it is for someone like you to die. (Emily Dickinson)
- Is there an ear so fine as to be able to hear the sighs of the wilting rose? (Arthur Schnitzler)
- Roses perfume by trade. (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
- I don't want a rose at Christmas any more than the snow in May may wish: I like everything that ripens when it's season. (William Shakespeare)
- We can complain because the rose gardens have thorns or rejoice because the thorny bushes have roses. It depends on your point of view. (Abraham Lincoln)
- His love is a pale, dying rose that loses its petals. (Jeff Buckley)
- Once a rose was named and it flattered me.However, I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "it is not good in a bed, but it is good against a wall". (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- Live, if you want to believe me, don't wait for tomorrow. Collect the roses of life today. (Pierre De Ronsard)
- Each rose has its inner lute. (Alberto Casiraghy)
- What remains of all travel is the scent of a dried rose. (Cavidan Tumerkan)
Aphorisms about roses
- Why, believe me, has anyone ever sent me a perfect limousine so far? Ah, no, it's always from me to always receive a perfect rose. (Dorothy Parker)
- I would water the roses with my tears to feel the pain of their thorns and the red kiss of their petals. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Sometimes the rose blushes for the vase. (Józef Bulatowicz)
- The rose is without why: it blooms because it blooms, does not mind itself, does not ask if you see it. (Angelus Silesius)
- I don't want a rose at Christmas any more than the snow in May may wish: I like everything that ripens when it's season. (William Shakespeare)
- A sponge to erase the past, a rose to sweeten the present and a kiss to greet the future. (Guy De Maupassant)
- It is a fate of thorns to try to enjoy the rose. (Eise Osman)
- Everything that happens is as usual and familiar as roses in spring and the harvest in autumn. (Marco Aurelio)
- A city is worth no more than a rose garden. (José Santos Chocano)
- An idealist is one who, noting that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that a better soup can be made. (Henry Louis Mencken)
- A thorn is also welcome when you expect to see a rose. (Publilio Siro)
- I feel like I have opened a book and found yesterday's sweet and fragrant roses among its pages. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
- There are times when a rose is more important than a piece of bread. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- The rose that lives its small is now more appreciated than the carved flower. (William Cullen Bryant)
- Is there an ear so fine as to be able to hear the sighs of the wilting rose? (Arthur Schnitzler)
- Life is a rose where every petal is an illusion and every thorn a reality. (Alfred De Musset)
- It is better to enjoy a rose than to examine its root under a microscope. (Oscar Wilde)
- Love has planted a rose, and the world has become sweet. (Katharine Lee Bates)
- There is no rose without thorns. - But there are several thorns without roses! (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- Anyone who wants a rose must respect its thorns. (André Gide)
- Like a god with huge blue eyes and snow forms, the sea and the sky attract the crowd of young and strong roses on the marble terraces. (Arthur Rimbaud)
- Collect the rose of love while you are still in time. (Edmund Spenser)
- Life is a rose where every petal is an illusion and every thorn a reality. (Alfred de Musset)
- One day you will name me, then you will gently put those burning roses in my hair. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- The roses woke up early to bloom and bloomed to age. In a bud they found life and death. (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
- Of all the flowers, I think the rose is the best. (William Shakespeare)
- The optimist sees the rose and not the thorns; the pessimist is fixed on the thorns, forgetful of the rose. (Kahlil Gibran)
- I will heal you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too was covered in thorns. (Gialal Al Din Rumi
- A sponge to erase the past, a rose to sweeten the present and a kiss to greet the future. (Guy de Maupassant)
- The voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses. (Edward Estlin Cummings)
Phrases about roses
- Seize the rose when it is time, because you know time that flies and the same flower that blossoms tomorrow will wilt. (Walt Whitman)
- Love is a rose, each petal an illusion, each thorn a reality. (Charles Baudelaire)
- A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. He would be horribly selfish if he wanted the flowers in the garden to be all red and all rose. (Oscar Wilde)
- The fragrance is always in the hand that holds the rose. (George William Curtis)
- A rose doesn't need to preach. It merely spreads its perfume. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Whoever does not dare to grasp the thorns should never desire the rose. (Anne Bronte)
- An idealist is one who, noting that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that a better soup can be made. (Henry Louis Mencken)
- Love the rose, but leave it on its stem. (Edward Bulwer Lytton)
- I have never been able to understand if beautiful people have an innate tendency to grow roses or if it is roses in their growth that make people beautiful. (Roland A. Beowne)
- Life is full of paradoxes, like roses are full of thorns. (Fernando Pessoa)
- It is the time that you have wasted for your rose that has made your rose so important. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- Roses will never rain: when we want more roses we have to plant more roses. (George Eliot)
- When you are in pessimism, look at a rose. (Albert Samain)
- Summer is no less characterized by its flies and mosquitoes than by its roses and starry nights. (Marcel Proust)
- What's in a name? What we call by the name of rose, even if we call it by another name, would still retain the same sweet scent. (William Shakespeare)
- Everything that happens is as usual and familiar as roses in spring and the harvest in autumn. (Marco Aurelio)
- Nothing is known, everything is imagined. Surround yourself with roses, love, drink, and be quiet. The rest is nothing. (Fernando Pessoa)
- The violets and lilies that hatch are not always in bloom, and, having faded the rose, the hard thorn remains. (Ovid)
- What remains of all travel is the scent of a dried rose. (Cavidan Tumerkan)
- ran the fresh and matutina rose, which, delaying, season perder potria. (Ludovico Ariosto)
- I will stop loving you only when a deaf painter will be able to paint the sound of a rose petal falling on a crystal floor of a castle that never existed. (Jim Morrison)
- The rose is more beautiful when it is blooming, and hope is more alive when it arises from fears. (Walter Scott)
- I would water the roses with my tears to feel the pain of their thorns and the red kiss of their petals. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Where you grow the rose, the thistle cannot grow. (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- Because nothing I call this immense universe except you, my rose; in it you are my everything. (William Shakespeare)
- There is no rose without thorns. But there are several thorns without roses. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- The rose is without why: it blooms because it blooms, does not mind itself, does not ask if you see it. (Angelus Silesius)
- What's in a name? What we call rose, also called with another word, would have the same sweet scent. (William Shakespeare)
- My kiss has the breath of red roses, petal that melts on the mouth. (Sergej Esenin)
- A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. He would be terribly selfish if he wanted the flowers in the garden to be all red and all rose. (Oscar Wilde)
The rose had blossomed in the morning light, so red with tender blood that the dew moved; so burning on the stem that the breeze was burning. And how high! And how it shines! It was all in bloom! (Federico García Lorca)
- Seize the rose when it is time, because you know time that flies and the same flower that blossoms tomorrow will wilt. (Robert Herrick)
- But those who dare not grab the thorn should never want the rose. (Anne Bronte)
