Quotes About Roses

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
- William 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

Here bloom red roses, dewy wet,
And beds of fragrant mignonette.
- Elaine Goodale

She wore a wreath of roses,
The night that first we met.
- Thos. Haynes Bayly