How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!
- Colette
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Alphonse Karr
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
- Heinrich Heine
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.
- John Ruskin