I leave you the best rose phrases from authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rumi, Paulo Coehlo, Anne Brontë and Henry David Thoreau, authors of a special sensitivity who have always had this beautiful flower as their muse, symbol of love or passion.
Roses are flowers that grow on thorny bushes, known for their wide variety of colors (with red, pink, white, and yellow being the most common) and their sweet, pleasant scent.
They are generally marketed for ornamental and social purposes, being one of the most sold flowers by florists worldwide. These generally symbolize love, innocence, the dualities of beauty and the negative in life, as well as fragility and resilience. You may also be interested in these quotes about flowers.
-When life throws you thorns, look for the roses.
-Beauty without virtue is like a rose without fragrance.
-A single rose can be my garden; and a single friend, my world. -Leo Buscaglia.
-The world is a rose; smell it and pass it on to your friends. -Persian proverb.
-You will not be able to pick the rose without being punctured by its thorns. -Panchatantra.
-When you feel pessimistic, look at a rose. -Albert Samain.
-A rose fits all springs. -Antonio Gala.
-A single rose says more than a dozen. -Wendy Craig.
-It is on the edge of the petal that love awaits. -William Carlos Williams.
-Forgiveness is the fragrance that the rose leaves on the ankle of the one who crushes it.
-It is the time you have invested in your rose that makes it so important. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-A little fragrance is always impregnated in the hand that gives roses. -Chinese proverb.
-Love planted a rose, and the world became sweet. -Katharine Lee Bates.
-The roses wither, but the thorns survive. -Danish proverb.
-The rose has no explanation; it blooms because it blooms. -Angelo Silesio.
-My life is part humor, part roses and part thorns. -Bret Michaels.
-If you enjoy the aroma of the rose, you must accept its thorns. -Isaac Hayes.
-The rose speaks of love in silence, in a language that only the heart knows.
-I have looked at the roses and I have remembered you.
-For the love of a rose, the gardener is a servant of a thousand thorns. -Turkish proverb.
-Sweet rose! Your carmine leaves are happy little thieves. -Sir Edwin Arnold.
-One can live without bread, but not without roses. -Jean Richepin.
-She was as beautiful as the rose in May. -Geoffrey Chaucer.
-What a beautiful thing the rose is! -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
-The strangest essence of the rose exists in its thorns. -Rumi.
-If you really screw up, send roses. -Letitia Baldrige.
-He who does not dare to prick, should not desire the rose. -Anne Brontë.
-A relationship is like a rose. Nobody knows how long it will last. -Rob Cella.
-If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns. -Swedish proverb.
-Love is a rose, but it is better not to uproot it, it only grows on the branches. -Linda Ronstadt.
-If the rose is a beautiful flower, it is also because it blooms on its own. -Charles De Leusse.
-My blood is born in the veins of roses. -Dylan Thomas.
-Truths and roses have thorns around them. -Henry David Thoreau.
-Love the rose, but leave it on its stem. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
-Where you grow a rose, my friend, the thistle will not grow. -Frances Hodgson Burnett.
-A rose, it no longer seems to be as beautiful as it once was once its thorns have pricked you. -Anthony Liccione.
-We can complain about the fact that rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice at the fact that thorns have roses. -Alphonse Karr.
-I looked up at the sun and forgot about the storms. I was blinded by the beauty of the roses and did not notice the thorns. -Paulo Coelho.
-The rose does not bloom without thorns. It is true, but I wish that the thorns did not live longer than the rose. -Richter.
-If the rose were perplexed by how it grew, it would not be the miracle that it is now. -JB Yeats.
-Take the roses while you can, time passes quickly. The same flower that you admire today, tomorrow will be dead. -Walt Whitman.
-Where the hand feels the prick of the thorns, the eyes discover a bouquet of splendid roses, full of aroma. -José María Escrivá de Balaguer.
-A single rose for the living is more than an ostentatious crown of flowers for the dead. -Nixon Waterman.
-The rose simply exists; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-True friendship is like a rose, we do not realize its beauty until it fades. -Evelyn Loeb.
-The true beauty is found in the fragility of its petals. A rose that never fades is not a rose at all. -Crystal Woods.
-Those who do not pick roses in the summer, will not pick them in the winter either. -German proverb.
-Whoever loves roses, must be patient, and not cry when pricked by their thorns. -Olga Brouman.
-The air had the scent of roses from early May, and the sky was the clearest in the world. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
-Whoever wants the rose must respect its thorns. -Persian proverb.
-If every little flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its charm. -Therese de Liseux.
-Neither love nor a red rose can be concealed. -Thomas Holcroft.
-Pick up the rose of love while it's still time. -Edmund Spencer.
-Pointy thorns often produce delicate roses. -Ovid.
-My kiss has the breath of red roses, a petal that melts in the mouth. -Sergej Esenin
-I would rather have roses on my table, than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman.
-There are times when a rose is more important than a piece of bread. -Rainer Maria Rilke.
-Roses do not bloom quickly, since beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to complete. -Matshona Dhliwayo.
-What is the most beautiful thing about a rose? Their shy beauty when the buttons are coming out or their splendor when they bloom?
-The rose, although its petals are broken into pieces, still smiles and is never crestfallen. -Rumi.
-A rose does not need to preach. It is enough for her to spread her perfume. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the flower. -Chinese proverb.
-The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist looks at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. -Khalil Gibran.
-God gave us the memories so we could have roses in December. -JM Barrie.
-Life is like a rose: each petal is a dream and each thorn is a reality. -Alfred de Musset.
-If you are not ready for pain, then do not seek pleasure. Roses come with thorns, and thorns make us bleed.
-Love is fragrant like a bouquet of roses. -Juana de Ibarbourou.
-A woman is like a rose: if you take good care of her, you will see her love blossom.
-A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its beautiful promise will not come true. -Ray Evans.
-The rose does not advertise its aroma, but its unique fragrance spreads to its surroundings. -Sukarno.
-The best way to kill a rose is to force it open when it is still the promise of a button. -José Saramago.
-Roses are the most beautiful flowers. These and lilies are my favorites. -Aerin Lauder.
-I don't know if nice people tend to grow roses, or if growing roses makes people nice. -Roland A. Browne.
-True love is like small, sweet, fragrant roses in small doses. -Ana Claudia Antunes.
-Love is much like a wild rose: beautiful and gentle, but willing to make you bleed your self-defense. -Mark Overby.
-A rose is enough for sunrise. -Edmond Jabes.
-Neither the splendor of the rose, nor the whiteness of the lily, rob the little violet of its essence, nor the daisy its simple charm. -Teresa de Lisieux.
-Only in art, the lion will lie down next to the lamb, and the rose will grow without thorns. -Martin Amis.
- Roses will never rain: when we want to have more roses we will have to plant more trees. -George Eliot.
-Neither the rose stops being beautiful because it has thorns, nor the thorns stop hurting because it has roses.
-If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I would collect roses for a lifetime. -Swedish proverb.
-The rose is more beautiful when the button blooms, and hope is brighter when it is born of fears. - Sir Walter Scott.
-Tell me, is the rose naked or does it only have that dress? -Pablo Neruda.
-Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever makes you happy. -Rita Moreno.
-A life of love must have some thorns, but a life devoid of love will not have any roses.
-You could break the vase, if you wish, but the scent of the roses will still linger. -Thomas Moore.
-Give yourself time to smell the roses. -Proverb.
-Just remember that during the winter, deep in the bitter snow, there is a seed, which with the love of the sun in the spring will turn into a rose. -Leanne Rimes.
-A red rose is not selfish in wanting to be a red rose. It would be terribly selfish if I wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and pink. -Oscar Wilde.
-The same stem that feeds the rose petals also nourishes the thorns, so feeding your affection also opens a well that can nurture a deep wound and pain.
"Did you hear about the rose that grew out of a crack in the concrete?… Long live the rose that came out of the concrete even when no one else cared." -Tupac Shakur.
-The red rose sighs passion, and the white rose breathes love; Oh, the red rose is a hawk, and the white rose is a singing dove. -John Boyle O'Reilly.
-The perfume of roses is like the exquisite chords of music composed of various scent notes harmoniously combined. -NF Miller.
-The abundance of roses bent and broken by the rain speaks to me about their gentleness and resistance. -William Carlos Williams.
-The precious things are not always found in the simplest situations. Like the rose, they could even be covered with thorns.
-Red roses are the symbols you need when your heart beats erratically and you don't know how to express what you feel to the one you love.
-It's crazy to hate all the roses just because one pricked you, as well as to give up all your dreams just because one of them didn't come true. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-Love is a subtle art and should never be rushed, as it would be like trying to pluck a rose in a hurry without noticing the thorns that protect it.
-We are all dreaming of a magical rose garden on the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that bloom outside our windows today. -Dale Carnegie.
-How intelligently nature hides every wrinkle of its inconceivable antiquity beneath the roses, violets and morning dew! -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Don't sadly watch the rose petals fall, keep in mind that, like everything in life, some things must wither before they bloom again.
-I would water the roses with my tears, to feel the pain of their thorns, and the red kiss of their petals. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
-The fact of life is that pain and pleasure are found side by side. Just like roses and thorns, you can't have one without the other.
-Just as the rose has thorns, so any beautiful experience that you seek will come with its own arsenal of problems, so be prepared to fight for what you want.
-A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appear. The sun asks: "Aren't you tired of waiting?" The rose answers: "Yes, but if I close my petals I will die." -Paulo Coehlo.
-The rose is pink from when it is a seed until when it dies. Within it, it always contains all its potential. It seems to be constantly changing; but it always seems to be perfect. -Paulo Coehlo.
-The rose is something extraordinary. Its smell and its color are an ornament of life, not a condition. Only goodness gives us many additions, and therefore I say that we can expect a lot from flowers. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
-Beauty is a joy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to say about her. It's like the perfume of the rose: you can smell it, and that's it. -W. Somerset Maugham.
-The most powerful description of life is like the petal of a rose that once shone and eventually loses its shine, withers and falls to the ground. Nothing in life is permanent.
-The rose is a flower of love. Pink roses are for hopeful and impatient love. White for dead or abandoned love. Oh, and the red ones for triumphant love.