87 Rose Quotes About Natural Beauty, Love, and Thorns

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

"There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."

"One rose says more than the dozen."

"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together."

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

"Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites."

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms."

"If the rose is beautiful flower, it is also because it opens itself."

"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

"The rose is the flower of love. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant. White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the red roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant."

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

"When love first came to Earth, the Spring spread rose-beds to receive him."

"One rose is enough for the dawn."

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
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"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

"The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity."

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."

"Love and a red rose can't be hid."

"We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'"

"When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people."

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

"If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength."

"English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!"

"I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

"Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it."

"Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy"

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

"Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal."

"I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose."

"I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too."

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

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

"But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose."

"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."

"Live in Thorns but always enchant the hearts with your fragrance."

"But he that dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose."

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

"I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses."

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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"My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. "

"A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn. "

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."

"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

"Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns."

"Life is like a rose garden — watch for the thorns and keep the pest dust handy."

"If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?"

"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears."

"It is at the edge of the petal that love waits."

"A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: Aren’t you tired of waiting? Yes, answers the rose, but if I close my petals, I will wither and die."

"Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again"

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

"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true."

"Rose never propagandizes its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads surrounding."

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

"The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns."

"I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed."

"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."

"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."

"I like roses as red as blood. I smell lilies as white as milk. I grow irises as purple as my dreams. So, let me give you peonies as pink my kiss."

"Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them."

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

"World without poetry is like a lover without a rose."

"Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight."

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed."

"It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose."

"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I’ll never love someone the way I love you."

"When life throws thorns, hunt for roses."

"I never promised you a rose garden."

"Roses are red, violets are blue, but I wouldn’t know since I don’t get them from you."

"Take time to smell the roses."

"My love flowers like a rose"