(29 quotes found)
“If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily”
Chinese Proverbs
“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
William Shakespeare
“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
Bible
“By cool Siloam's shady rill / How sweet the lily grows! / How sweet the breath beneath the hill / Of Sharon's dewy rose!”
Richard Heber
“'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to”
Lewis Carroll
“We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms”
Abraham Cowley
“I know a little garden close / Set thick with lily and red rose, / Where I would wander if I might / From dewy dawn to dewy night. / And have one with me wandering.”
William Morris
“Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.”
Charles Lamb
“Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”
“Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.”
Andrew Marvell
