Through poetry, music and
stories, people have been writing about the magnificence and meaning
of flowers for centuries. Their writings highlight the difference
that beautiful fresh garden flowers and floral arrangements can make
to their own lives, as well as the lives of their friends and loved
ones.
Here's a
selection of some of our favourite flower quotes... we hope you find
them enjoyable and thought provoking too!
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
- Kozuko Okakura
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
- Persian Proverb
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until
it fades.
- Evelyn Loeb
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows
them.
- Chinese proverb
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson, Public Roads: Where Flowers Bloom
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerald De Nerval
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
- Heinrich Heine
Flowers are love's truest language.
- Park Benjamin
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name
would smell as sweet.
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
- William Carlos Williams
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a
stranger.
- Issa
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally
considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small
compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a
passion for flowers in his soul.
- Celia Thaxter
Send a beautiful bunch of roses
or a cottage garden posy to
someone today!
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