172 Quotes About Roses

Les roses n'ont rien de mièvre ou de gentil, elles sont juste vraies. Cruellement vraies. Si leurs pétales nous montrent que la vie est belle à couper le souffle, leurs épines nous rappellent qu'elle est dangereuse à en crever. −Marcus

Of course the rose has plenty of other associations beyond the realm of love and sex. It has served as a royal emblem and national flower. It represents Christian charity, the brevity of life, and hopes for happiness, a time when everything will come up roses. Secular and spiritual roses are often intertwined....

There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry drunk. The senses fused; sometimes these roses emitted low but intolerably piercing pentatonic melodies which were the sound of their deep crimson colour and yet we heard them inside our nostrils.

The morning was a cup filled with mist and glamor. In the corner near her was a rich surprise of new-blown, crystal-dewed roses. The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree above her seemed in perfect accord with her mood. A sentence from a very old, very true, very wonderful Book came to her lips,'Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.

At first glance, they do indeed look like roses. But on closer inspection, each blossom sits on a tart crust.These roses are her dish! She made Apple Rose Tarts!"Aah! Picking it up makes the scent waft ever closer! What a decadent yet delicately sublime scent!I've yet to take a single bite, but already I feel as if I'm in a dream!

I've never wanted rosesto resist wiltingmore than I do now.That's how I knowthat I want this loveto last.

... the world needs more roses far more than it needs more basketball players.

Love is still a bed of roses. It's the people who bring along their thorns.

They passed a crystal vase of luscious yellow roses, which burst from tight salmon buds into golden, creamy yellow blossoms tinged with delicate strokes of subtle peach.