These Roses quotes will inspire you. A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars.
Nothing says romance higher than a bouquet of roses. Beautiful flowers are the preferred choice for luxurious wedding arrangements to a simple gift. Celebrate this classic symbol of the beauty of love with the collection of enlightened roses quotes.
Top Roses Quotes
- “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.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.” ~ Pierre de Ronsard
- “Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.” ~ Rumi
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“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “Of all the flowers, methinks a rose is best.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
- “Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.” ~ Andy Puddicombe
- “Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.” ~ Rajneesh, Roses quotes garden
- “The rose does not have a why; it blossoms without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.” ~ Angelus Silesius
- “Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “And the marvelous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “I am thankful that thorns have roses.” ~ Alphonse Karr
- “The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.” ~ George William Curtis
- “In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
- “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” ~ Katharine Lee Bates
- “the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses” ~ e. e. cummings
- “If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” ~ Isaac Hayes
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“I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
- “I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.” ~ Rumi
- “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” ~ Gertrude Stein
- “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” ~ Emma Goldman
- “As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” ~ Ben Hogan
- “How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Roses quotes for her
- “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” ~ Alphonse Karr
- “Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.” ~ Bette Midler
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“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.” ~ Anne Bronte
- “Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.” ~ Edmund Spenser
- “Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night’s gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.” ~ Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
- “The rose is without ‘why’; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.” ~ Angelus Silesius
- “The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.” ~ Ovid
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“You, of course, are a rose– But were always a rose.” ~ Robert Frost
- “The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.” ~ John Boyle O’Reilly - “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.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.” ~ William Carlos Williams
- “Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
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“Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- “I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.” ~ Saadi
- “Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.” ~ Robert Herrick
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“You don’t blast a heart open,” she said. “You coax and nurture it open like the sun does to a rose.” ~ Melody Beattie
- “And the rose like a nymph to the bath address,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley - “That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.” ~ Rumi
- “How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss and all was said.” ~ Victor Hugo
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“Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.” ~ Anatole France
- “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” ~ William Shakespeare, Roses quotes Shakespeare
- “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” ~ George Eliot, Roses quotes rain
- “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.” ~ Rumi
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“The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It’s focused attention.” ~ Rick Warren
- “Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.” ~ William Shakespeare - “The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.” ~ William Shakespeare - “Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.” ~ William C. Bryant -
“And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.” ~ Marie Antoinette
- “You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.” ~ Thomas Moore
- “The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.” ~ William Shakespeare - “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” ~ Salvador Dali
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“Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!” ~ Tupac Shakur
- “The rose is a rose And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes That the apple’s a rose.” ~ Robert Frost - “There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose–a gleaming, round saucer–over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquility beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul–or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “I, love, I am the pure acetylene Virgin Attended by roses.” ~ Sylvia Plath
