109 Romantic Quotes About Roses: Inspiring & Honoring Love

Rose is the queen of flowers, such beautiful name that everyone knows when someone mention. The flower symbolizes love, beauty and eternity. And when it comes to roses, people immediately think of the flower of love, a romantic love, passionate love, passionate but no less delicate, tender at first sight.

Roses have different meanings on each occasion, for example on Valentine’s Day roses mean romance, sweetness and sincerity. Besides the sweetness of love, roses are a source of inspiration for novelty, a new beginning for us to find our dreams.

Roses are beautiful and classic that have captivated people for centuries. Roses have inspired countless poets, writers, composers, musicians and artists over the years with their creativity and contrasting perspectives. Here are some quotes about roses by many famous authors to help you have a better understanding about flowers, as well as the love and romance of roses.

• True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses. ― Ana Claudia Antunes
• When love came first to earth, the Spring spread rose beds to receive him. ― Thomas Campbell
• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. ― Isaac Hayes
• A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. ― Chinese Proverb
• Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ― Mark Overby
• A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses. ― Anonymous
• Love is a rose, but you’d better not pick it, only grows when it’s on the vine. Handful of thorns and you know you’ve missed it. Lose your love when you say the word mine. ― Linda Ronstadt
• A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows. ― Rob Cella
• A woman is like a rose… If you take good care of her, you will see love blossom. ― Anonymous
• There may be many flowers in one’s life…but only one rose. ― Anonymous
• Love and a red rose can’t be hid. ― Thomas Holcroft
• The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. ― John Boyle O’Reilly
• One rose is enough for the dawn. ― Edmond Jabes
• If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime. ― Swedish Proverb
• This love is the rose that blooms forever. ― Rumi
• My love is like a rose divided into two, the leaves I give to others, but the rose I give to you. ― Anonymous
• Roses are red, violets are blue, I’ll never love someone the way I love you. ― Anonymous
• A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ― Old Chinese Proverb.
• The more you love roses, the more you must bear with thorns. ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses. ― Ana Claudia Antues
• Roses are red, violets are blue, I’ll never love someone the way I love you. ― Anonymous
• If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime. ― Swedish Proverb
• Love and a red rose can’t be hid. ― Thomas Holcroft
• Love is like a rose. When pressed between two lifetimes, it will last forever. ― Anonymous
• A rose speaks of love silently in a language known only to the heart. ― Anonymous
• A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows. ― Rob Cella
• But he who dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose. ― Anne Brontë
• The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. ― John Boyle O’Reilly
• A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses. ― Anonymous
• I’d rather have roses on my table that diamonds on my neck. ― Emma Goldman
• It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes her so important. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Friends are the roses of life… pick them carefully and avoid the thorns! ― Unknown Author
• The world is a rose, smell it, and pass it to your friends. ― Persian Proverb
• Love is sweeter than any rose. Love pricks you far deeper than any thorn. ― Anonymous
• My love is like a rose divided into two, the leaves I give to others, but the rose I give to you. ― Anonymous
• Even if love is full of thorns, I’d still embrace it for I know that in between those thorns, there is a rose that’s worth all the pain. ― Anonymous
• If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf, Our love would grow together, In sad or sighing weather. ― Anonymous
• A rose is a symbol of my love for you. Its petals shine in beauty, its thorn show its pain. ― Anonymous
• Have you ever watched a rose as it fades away; the color becomes deeper as the petals dry. That’s how my love for you deepens as the days go by. ― Anonymous
• Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared. ― Anonymous
• Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose. ― Anonymous
• Love is like a rose. When pressed between two lifetimes, it will last forever. ― Anonymous
• Friends are the roses of life… pick them carefully and avoid the thorns! ― Anonymous
• There may be many flowers in a man’s life, but there is only one rose. ― Anonymous
• If I could have a rose for every time I thought of you, The world would be empty of them. ― Anonymous
• Why does a rose represent love… when a rose always dies? ― Anonymous
• What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ― Anonymous
• The red rose whispers of passion, and the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, and the white rose is a dove; but I send you a cream-white rose bud, With a flush on its petal tips; for the love that is purest and sweetest, has a kiss of desire on its lips. ― Anonymous
• A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses. ― Anonymous
• The fragrance of the rose, remains on the hand that gives it. ― Anonymous
• Men are like roses, watch out for the pricks! ― Anonymous
• True love is not without pain, like that of thorns in your side. Yet love is like the rose in full bloom, beautiful and full of life. ― Anonymous
• The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart. ― Anonymous
• Rose are red; violets are blue; when I think of you, my writing comes out corny. ― Anonymous
• I gave my blood to keep your roses red. ― Anonymous
• Love is like a rosebud, it can blossom fully, or it can die softly. ― Anonymous
• Love is like a rose; blinded by its beauty you overlook the thorns. ― Anonymous
• If you have found the one you love then you have found the rose in a forest of thorns. ― Anonymous
• You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have a rose. ― Anonymous
• I am a rose; you are my thorns, clutching and protecting me. ― Anonymous
• Love is a rose: beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ― Anonymous
• In love, the hard times will surely call, and no lover is without their flaw. But you must have rain to see the rainbows, and endure the thorns to have the rose. ― Anonymous
• If you stand in front of a mirror with 11 roses, you’ll see 12 of the most beautiful things in the world. ― Anonymous
• You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ― Anonymous
• If love is a rose, I have found my bouquet. ― Anonymous
• Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color. ― Anonymous
• I’ll fly you on a cloud of rose petals just to let you feel how soft your love makes me feel. ― Anonymous
• She who loves roses, must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. ― Anonymous
• I had a rose, but fate took it away and gave me a whole bouquet instead. ― Anonymous
• There is no difference between roses and people, both have different colors, different smells and both die. ― Anonymous
• I give you these flowers as a sign of true love. A sign that I love you, does that say enough? Those flowers represent my feelings, my feelings for you.. I still have all of those feelings but I don’t know what to do… ― Anonymous
• If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf, Our love would grow together,In sad or sighing weather. ― Anonymous
• If you love a rose, you have to love its thorns too. ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. ― Edmund Spenser
• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ― Rainer Maria Rilke
• In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. ― Bahá’u’lláh
• Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. ― John Lennon
• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ― Max
• Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ― Victor Hugo
• If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ― Claudia Adrienne Grandi
• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ― Helen Keller
• If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. ― Buddha
• Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right. ― Stephen Richards
• Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. ― Miranda Kerr
• Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity. ― Dorothea Dix
• Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. ― Gerard De Nerval
• Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ― John Harrigan
• Politeness is the flower of humanity. ― Joseph Joubert
• Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world. ― Unknown
• Earth laughs in flowers. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Flowers don’t tell, they show. ― Stephanie Skeem
• Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound. ― Edwin Curran
• The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly. ― Ecouchard Le Brun
• Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. ― Jim Carrey
• The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. ― Robert Leighton
• Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Where flowers bloom so does hope. ― Lady Bird Johnson
• Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ― Luther Burbank
• Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom. ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck off.” ― Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious
• How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against it’s being, otherwise we all remain too frightened. ― Hafiz
• Rose is pink. Champagne is too. I really like wine, but I love you. ― Anonymous
• The gentle rose offers a powerful joy known only to the heart. ― Andrew Pacholyk
• She was like a rose, A wild one though. Wild roses stuffed with wild beauty and hard thorns. ― Anonymous
• Red roses stand for passion, true love, romance and desire. ― Anonymous
• But he that dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose. ― Anonymous