Roses Quotes

There were crimson roses on the bench, they looked like splashes of blood.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

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.

~ Charles Martin

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

~ Bret Michaels

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

~ Jonah Hill

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.

~ Arthur Miller

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

~ Jim Finks

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

~ Bernard Williams

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

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

~ Orison Swett Marden

I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

~ Kirsten Dunst

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

~ Nina Arianda

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

~ Martin Jacques

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.

~ Joe Slovo

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

~ Ethel Merman

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

~ Esai Morales

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.

~ Rudolf Otto

Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.

~ Jon Huntsman

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

~ Yoko Ono

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

~ Slash

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

~ Alphonse Karr

I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it.

~ Julie Andrews

When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

~ Orlando Bloom

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

~ George Eliot

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

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

~ Tina Charles

'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'

~ Sarah J. Maas

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

~ Oscar Levant

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

~ Ben Hogan

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

~ Jean Cocteau

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

~ Kate Moss