32 Orchid Quotes: An Exquisite, Gentle & Graceful Beauty

Orchids, also known as orchid, originate from Brazil. The name orchid comes from the Greek word orchis, which means testicles. For the most part, orchids have only five petals and are wrapped around a lip, the shape of the petals is also very diverse.

Besides having the delicate petals and beautiful colors, orchids also have a seductive scent which is gentle, ethereal, subtle, not intense and strong. It is because of its beauty and unique fragrance that orchids are loved by the British aristocracy. And thanks to its beauty, this flower is called the Queen of all flowers.

Orchids symbolize the luxury and nobility in love. Additionally, orchids have many different colors: white represents reverence and humility, purple represents nobility, yellow stands for friendship… Despite of having many meanings, orchid always brings out the beauty, gentleness and charm. And now, enjoy the 32 inspirational orchid quotes that shared for free, right below.

• The orchid is Mother Nature’s masterpiece. ― Robyn
• If I see an orchid that’s fantastically expensive, I’ll buy it. It’s worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure. ― Lee Radziwill
• You’re a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. ― Lynn Viehl
• An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. ― Confucius
• When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. ― Stephen Mitchell
• When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid’s perfume. ― Sara Jeannette Duncan
• Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air. ― Myrtle Reed
• Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. ― Stephen Jay Gould
• For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it’s like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else. ― Scarlett Thomas
• Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. ― Susan Orlean
• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. ― Beau Bridges
• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid… One wants… But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one? ― Tony Kushner
• Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. ― Freeman Dyson
• A human being isn’t an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in. ― Sara Jeannette Duncan
• When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. ― Stephen Mitchell
• There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it’s in all the textbooks. ― Anchee Min
• For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it’s like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else. ― Scarlett Thomas
• Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. ― Oscar Wilde
• She brought over a freshly brewed cup of black orchid tea and sat across from me. The tea was especially fragrant. From that day on, it was my favorite. The scent reminded me of rainy days and libraries and a jumble of gardens where there were flowers in bloom. ― Alice Hoffman
• The orchid is Mother Nature’s masterpiece. ― Robyn
• I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions … There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents. ― Maria Bamford
• I would need … daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway. ― Mary Ann Rivers
• And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire. ― Patti Smith
• No matter how decadent and corrupt my body becomes, I will, like a desert orchid that blooms once every hundred years, come to you bearing this frigidness toward life. ― Bae Suah
• As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way. ― Mark Nepo
• And Alison’s leaning gently on my arm, her wild bouquet of orchid-red curls tickling into my neck. ― Ben H. Winters
• Because you have been created by God as a unique person, his plan to grow you will not look the same as his plan to grow anyone else. What would grow an orchid would drown a cactus. ― John Ortberg
• Flower petals in the breeze look like a butterfly flapping its wings. My love for you takes flight like a white orchid blushing pink. ― Jarod Kintz
• Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight. ― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
• Inspired teachers … cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted. ― John Jay Chapman
• In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla. ― Diane Ackerman
• Raising orchids has taught me this: A plant’s inability to adapt to a new climate will always be immediately apparent. You’ll try a new soil and snip off dead parts from the leaves, maybe try fertilizer. But one day you’re going to walk in and find your beautiful orchid slumped over and hugging the earth whence it came. ― Karen White

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