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Quotes About Rose

Let's toast a real wine expert - someone who knows a good rose goes best with bologna sandwiches.
~ Elmer Pasta
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
~ Omar Khayyam
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
~ Karen Abbott
The Doctor: Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I!
~ Russell T Davies
Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
~ Tennessee Williams
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.
~ Karen Abbott
A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
~ Suzanne Collins
It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.
~ Suzanne Collins
it's not just a flower, not even just President Snow's flower, but a promise of revenge — because no one else sat in the study with him when he threatened me before the Victory Tour. Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm having a hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the rose, for the first time the descent makes me feel safer.
~ Suzanne Collins
Velva wasn't merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet.
~ Mav Skye, Wanted: Single Rose
Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.
~ Anonymous
Kiss her gypsy soul and love her for the wild rose she is.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
Like a rose bud, my heart always desires to bloom and spread the fragrance of love, beauty, and kindness of mankind.
~ Debasish Mridha
A trait si-a iubit si asta face si acum! In trandafirul asta de-o frumusete perfecta nu mai e nici o petala nedeschisa, nici o picatura de roua pe care n-au vazut-o razele soarelui.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.
~ Charlie Huston
The trip itself was the usual...adulation from all sides, rose petals strewn in my path everywhere I went, silver bells festooning the howdah on my private white elephant...you know the drill. I maintained my customary demeanor or regal calm and enigmatic silence throughout.
~ Charlotte MacLeod
Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.
~ Aerin Lauder
I've always loved the scent of rose; it's just the most beautiful scent. If you open my bathroom cupboard, everything is rose scented.
~ Ella Woodward
A little bird'll be here with the morning." "Oh?" said the rose-petal lady. "Tomorrow morning?" "That's the only morning coming." "It can't be," the rose-petal lady said. "It's too soon." "No it ain't. Right on time.
~ Toni Morrison
At that moment there came a fast, unrepeatable grass-green flash before the gold and rose of sunrise coloured the sky. Phryne blew the sun a kiss, and returned to her cabin.
~ Kerry Greenwood
It was the bruises on my lips that made me comprehend With what thoughtlessness I had kissed the rose
~ Khushwant Singh