Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Frey

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

J. R. R. Tolkien

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

Isaac Hayes

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

Jose Saramago

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

James Montgomery

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Emily Dickinson

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

Henry Van Dyke

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Jonathan Swift

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Omar Khayyam

The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.

Mason Cooley

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

Madison Smartt Bell

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

John Lyly

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

Ellen Hopkins

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

Karen Abbott

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

Karen Abbott

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.

Karen Abbott

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

Karen Abbott

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

John Keats

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

John Keats

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

John Keats

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

Lisa Vanderpump

Life isn't all diamonds and rose... but it should be.

Louis Aragon

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

Julie Harris

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Matthew Arnold

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Gilles Marini

Nothing is wrong about giving a rose to someone you like or love.

Billy Connolly

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

Julia Quinn

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Juan Williams

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.