#flower

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#lowly #shy #smells #sweetest

Flowers are happy things. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#happy #happy things #things

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#in-his-arms #the-age-of-innocence #age

Love smells like a flower in bloom. A flower that's sitting on a pile of steaming feces. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #age

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims... ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#flowers #midnight #beauty

A flower blossoms for its own joy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#flowers #happiness #joy #beauty

ഒരു പൂവ് പൊട്ടിയ മഷിക്കുപ്പിയില് ­‍ വച്ചാലും ചളുങ്ങിയ ഒരു പൌഡര്‍ ടിന്നില്‍ വച്ചാലും അതൊക്കെ പൂപ്പാത്രമായി മാറുന്നത് പോലെ ഉള്ളിലൊരു പൂവുണ്ടാകുകയാണ് ­ പ്രധാനം. അകപൊരുളിന്റെ സുഗന്ധമാണ് സൗന്ദര്യം ↗

— Fr.Boby Jose Kattikad

#flower #malayalam #beauty

How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called "this grace wholly gratuitous"? Is that what it is? Or does beauty have a purpose? (64) ↗

— Michael Pollan

#flowers #plants #beauty

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#art #border #civilization #course #flowers

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special. ↗

— Ina Garten

#flowers #i #i always #i think #like