Quotes of Crimson - somelinesforyou

“ No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. ”

- Bible

“ Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend. ”

- Unknown

“ You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy. ”

- Ziggy

“ Roses are red, Violets are blue. I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? ”

- Edward Fitzgerald

“ From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses. ”

- Nicholas Rowe

“ The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Red lips like a living, laughing rose. ”

- Laurence Hope

“ Red roses are at her feet,(Roses are red in her red-gold hair)And O where her bosom and girdle meetRed roses are hidden there. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Don't divorce your wife: bring her a dozen roses; the shock will kill her, and you can use the roses for the funeral. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me. ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood. ”

- Dorothy L. Sayers

“ Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I love you as one loves certain dark things,secretly, between the shadow and the soul. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. ”

- Bela Lugosi

“ Life is just a bowl of cherries, dont take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love. ”

- Bob Fosse

“ History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. ”

- Eldridge Cleaver

“ Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. ”

- Horace

“ A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Roses are reddish/ Violets are bluish/ If it weren't for Christmas/ We'd all be Jewish. ”

- Benny Hill

“ Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ”

- George Eliot

“ Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn. ”

- Thomas Hood

“ While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed. ”

- John Gay

“ Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists. ”

- Bruce Dickinson
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