495 Quotes About Rose

  • Author Edward Abbey
  • Quote

    I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Edward Abbey
  • Quote

    A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Karen Abbott
  • Quote

    Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Karen Abbott
  • Quote

    One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Karen Abbott
  • Quote

    I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Karen Abbott
  • Quote

    A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Aphra Behn
  • Quote

    Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

  • Tags
  • Share