1. "A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses." - Oscar Wilde
2. "Love and a red rose can't be hid." - Thomas Holcroft
3. "The red rose whispers of passion, and the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, and the white rose is a dove." - John Boyle O'Reilly
4. "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." - Katharine Lee Bates
5. "A red, red rose, all wet with dew, with leaves of green by red shot through." - E. Nesbit
6. "Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says 'for the woman I love' and the second, 'for my best friend.'" - Saint Augustine
7. "O, my luve is like a red, red rose." - Robert Burns
8. "Ah, on what little things does happiness depend." - Oscar Wilde
9. "A gratitude - heart is to discover on earth a heaven - delivered rose." - Sri Chinmoy
10. "I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world." - Louis Armstrong
11. "Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!" - Tupac Shakur
12. "Their lips were four red roses on a stalk." - William Shakespeare
13. "Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny." - Jim Carrey
14. "Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie that's sweetly played in tune." - Robert Burns
15. "Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one." - Francesca Lia Block
16. "I cast my heart into my rhymes, that you, in the dim coming times, may know how my heart went with them after the red - rose - bordered hem." - William Butler Yeats
17. "Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, and beds of fragrant mignonette." - Goodale Sisters
18. "Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain." - Jessica Sorensen
19. "My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one." - Francesca Lia Block
20. "Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships." - Ruskin Bond