Quotes About Roses

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
Shakespeare

Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowers that in the forest grew.
Edmund Spenser

Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That ’s newly sprung in June;
Oh, my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
Robert Burns

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

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
Christopher Marlowe

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J. M. Barrie

I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
William Butler Yeats

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Edmund Spenser

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Sir Walter Scott

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still aflying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick

A red, red rose, all wet with dew,
With leaves of green by red shot through.
E. Nesbit

The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Bryant