Poets, painters and philosophers have written about flowers, and each found something different in them: joy, hope, a reminder of how fleeting beauty is. Here are famous quotes about flowers and roses, Ukrainian proverbs, and short original lines from the UFL team to write on a gift card or use as a photo caption.
More on this topic: captions for flower photos, flowers in Ukrainian poetry, the language of flowers, what to give with flowers.
“The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I must have flowers, always, and always.” — Claude Monet
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” — Georgia O’Keeffe
“And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” — William Wordsworth
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“It is the time you have spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” — Gertrude Stein
“There is no rose without a thorn.” — Ukrainian proverb
“A cherry orchard by the house, beetles humming over the cherries.” — Taras Shevchenko
“Spring is beautiful with flowers, autumn with sheaves.” — Ukrainian proverb
“One flower does not make a wreath.” — Ukrainian proverb
“Without the willow and the guelder rose there is no Ukraine.” — Ukrainian proverb
“If you have two coins left, buy bread with one and a flower with the other.” — Chinese proverb
For more poetry about guelder rose, periwinkle and hollyhocks, see flowers in Ukrainian poetry and song.
We wrote these lines ourselves; feel free to use them on cards and in captions.For the card, see our love quotes.
“Flowers are the shortest way from “I’m thinking of you” to a smile.”
“A bouquet can’t talk, yet it always says the right thing.”
“Spring comes once a year, but flowers can be given every day.”
“The best reason to give flowers is no reason at all.”
“Flowers at home are a mood you can see.”
“Roses fade; the memory of them does not.”
A “just because” bouquet is loved for the surprise, so its note should be simple and warm. A few short lines we wrote for exactly that:
Write the card by hand: even one short line in your own handwriting means more than a long printed message.
A quote easily becomes a gift: write it on a card to go with the bouquet. Roses suit lines about love; spring tulips suit words about hope and new beginnings.
See roses and flowers in a box.
The American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet.
A short line about flowers or love plus a sentence or two of your own. See the short lines above.
Author: Maria Svitlovir
Graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Biology and Medicine (2001). BSc in Biology, MSc in Horticulture. Writes about plants, works at a garden centre selecting and repotting plants, and contributes to plant reference guides.
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