Flower Quotes Flower Quotes

Flowers have long been an inspiration to many people. Here are some of our favorite flower quotes that hopefully will inspire you as well.


I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
- Beverly Nichols
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese Proverb
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all, all in all I should know what God and man is.
- Tennyson
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades.
- Evelyn Loeb
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
- Georgia O'Keeffe