41 Quotes on Roses

• We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

  Author: Bern Williams

• Truths and roses have thorns about them.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

  Author: Nikki Sixx

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

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.

  Author: Junipero Serra

• The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• One may live without bread, not without roses.

  Author: Jean Richepin

• And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

  Author: Francis Quarles

• The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

  Author: James Polk

• The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

  Author: Ovid

• But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

  Author: Rudolf Otto

• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

  Author: Thomas More

• I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

  Author: Esai Morales

• While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

  Author: Thomas Moore

• 'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

  Author: Edward Moore

• 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.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• Everything's coming up roses - for me.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

  Author: Johnny Mercer

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

  Author: H. Mencken

• 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.

  Author: Henri Matisse

• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  Author: Oscar Levant

• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Author: Alphonse Karr

• If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

  Author: Eric Johnston

• Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

  Author: George Herbert

• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Author: Emma Goldman

• Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

  Author: Charles Gaulle

• Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

  Author: Stephen Gardiner

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

  Author: George Eliot

• They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

  Author: Ernest Dowson

• My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

  Author: Henry Constable

• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

  Author: Jean Cocteau

• Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

  Author: Tina Charles

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  Author: Fidel Castro

• 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 that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Author: Dale Carnegie

• Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.

  Author: Robert Buchanan

• We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  Author: Clive Bell

• God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

  Author: James Barrie

• Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

  Author: Syd Barrett

• This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

  Author: Susan Anthony

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