“A little fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the roses.”
“Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.”
“If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.”
“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.”
“Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.”
“Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.”