172 Quotes About Roses

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

I like to think that love is like a rose. A rose that is beginning to sprout is like a person feeling love for the first time. It will grow in time as the couples interact and along the way, they may hurt themselves by the thorns of pain and misunderstanding. But it is all worth it to see the rose in full bloom as the two share their true love.What happens after that is unknown. The rose may last forever and create others, or it may wither away and start anew.

Then the wind came in with Bart and blew the vase of roses from the table. I stood and stared down at the crystal pieces and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear!

Les roses de SaadiJ'ai voulu ce matin te rapporter des roses ;Mais j'en avais tant pris dans mes ceintures closesQue les noeuds trop serrés n'ont pu les contenir.Les noeuds ont éclaté. Les roses envoléesDans le vent, à la mer s'en sont toutes allées.Elles ont suivi l'eau pour ne plus revenir ;La vague en a paru rouge et comme enflammée.Ce soir, ma robe encore en est tout embaumée...Respires-en sur moi l'odorant souvenir.

If roses could talk, they would not boast of their beauty, because they know that they have always been beautiful.

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.

Oh, a tea rose, most excellent," the Dodo said, delightedly taking in their surroundings. "Just what we need."Alice was about to admonish him for his nonsense, but of course the tea rose had fat buds that, when closed, made perfect teacups, complete with steaming, delicious-smelling tea within. Actually, a nice cuppa didn't sound too bad right then.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]....