The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me 'dust to dust. '
That's it? That's your big goodbye?" Eve asked. Claire looked at Eve mystified. "I think I need guy CliffNotes. " "Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffNotes. " "What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?" Shane snorted. "I hugged. I'm done.
False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.
Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.
Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?
Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have. ' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.
Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
