Top 240 Lily Quotes & Sayings

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily.

Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

Lily slumped, putting her shaking hands on his shoulders. "But you will, won't you?" Pansy's voice broke into a sob. "Yes, Pan," Galen said quietly. "I don't like that," Pansy said. Galen stood and put his arms around the fine-boned girl, while Rose continued to comfort Lily. Oliver looked away. It was such a private moment; he hated to intrude on it. Galen was beloved by all of the sisters, but the love between him and Rose was so clear and shining that it hurt to look at them, spending their last hours together caring for the other girls.

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

If you die, Lily ... I’ll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

I have always maintained that the only group I belong to consists of my family, my wife Lily, my mother, my sons Omri and Gilad.

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin; I watched 'Mama's Family' religiously.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

I just don't care what people like Lily Allen think about stuff.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.

I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.

I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian.

My best friend is Lily Aldridge. Her daughter's my godchild.

Both Lily and I feel we have a responsibility to our kids and it's one we enjoy; we love being with them.

Where did Gabriel get a lily, In the month of March, When the green Is hardly seen On the early larch?

Mary is the lily in God's garden.

When I buy something from Raven & Lily, I know that it is good, it is not harming anything, and the people making it are being helped.

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

I miss the outspoken pop stars like Lily Allen.

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

Tashan' is not for the lily-livered.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage." He wiggled his eyebrows. "I'd make a great master.