Quotes of Holly - somelinesforyou

“ Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? ”

- Emily Bronte

“ I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me. ”

- Graham Nash

“ Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows, I took her for some Scottish Muse, By that same token, An' come to stop those reckless vows, Would soon be broken. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Save the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread. ”

- George Crabbe
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