Roses Sayings and Quotes

Nothing says romance louder than a bouquet of roses. The beautiful blossoms are the go-to flower choice for luxurious wedding arrangements to the simple single stem gift. Celebrate this classic symbol of love a beauty with the collection of wise roses quotes below.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. Louisa May Alcott
Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? / And this first Summer month that brings the Rose / Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away. Omar Khayyam
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. Oscar Wilde
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last. Charles De Gaulle
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave. T.S. Eliot
By brooks too broad for leaping / The lightfoot boys are laid; / The rose-lipt girls are sleeping / In fields where roses fade. A. E. Housman
Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr
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
God gave us memories so that we might enjoy roses in December. J.M. Barrie
Of all the flowers, Methinks a rose is best. / It is the very emblem of a maid. / For when the west wind courts her gently / How modestly she blows, and paints the sun / With her chaste blushes! William Shakespeare
Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose. Alex Flinn
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said. Sylvia Plath
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. St. Therese de Lisieux
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
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
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love and a red rose can't be hid. Thomas Holcroft
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one. Valerie
But America's war grew worse and worse and eventually it came to London. After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone. Valerie
Her lips? The early morning rose would whither on the branch if it could feel envy. William Shakespeare
A handmaiden of the devil! And wickedness in your children. The rose smells thusly ranked by any name. I say a plague on both their houses. Makepeace the Preacher
My poor worried heart was almost certain / That this love affair would never be / Then I sent a dozen yellow roses and / From that moment, she belonged to me Andy Williams
You treat me like a rose / You give me room to grow / You shone the light of love on me / And gave me air so I can breathe / You opened doors I closed / In a world where anything goes / You give me strength so I stand tall / Within this bed of earth / Just like a rose Ben Adams
Anyone knows you can train a rose / To be a clingin' vine! / So, from this day hence, there'll be a picket fence / 'round that ramblin' rose of mine! Joe Sherman
Only a rose to whisper, / Blushing as roses do, / I bring along a smile or a song for anyone, / Only a rose for you! Brian Hooker
Precious winter rose / Beautiful and rare / Precious winter rose / In the garden there / Now there's only thorns / In the garden there / All of the petals are tattered and torn / Scattered everywhere / And the hand that crushed / The winter rose was mine / Yes, the hand that crushed / The winter rose was mine Bernard Edwards
Herself a rose, who bore the Rose, / She bore the Rose and felt its thorn. / All loveliness new-born / Took on her bosom its repose, / And slept and woke there night and morn. Christina Georgina Rossetti
The rose is a rose, / And was always a rose. / But the theory now goes / That the apple's a rose, / And the pear is, and so's / The plum, I suppose. / The dear only knows / What will next prove a rose. / You, of course, are a rose - / But were always a rose. Robert Frost
Mischievous rose from the rose-tree swaying, / Can I not bind thee nor hold thee? / Can I not weave thee nor fold thee / In with thy sisters to staying? / Vain is my passion or praying, / Rose from the rose-tree swaying. Dora Sigerson Shorter
Rose of beauty and fine appearance / And flower of happiness and pleasure, / lady of most merciful bearing, / And Lord for relieving all woes and cares; / Rose of roses and flower of flowers Alfonso X El Sabio