John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.
"Sacred Emily"
This statement, written in 1913 and first published in Geography and Plays, is thought to have originally been inspired by the work of the artist Sir Francis Rose; a painting of his was in her Paris drawing-room.
See also the Wikipedia article: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Nigel Rees explains the phrase thus: "The poem 'Sacred Emily' by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) is well-nigh impenetrable to the average reader but somehow it has managed to give a format phrase to the language. If something is incapable of explanation, one says, for example, 'a cloud is a cloud is a cloud.' What Stein wrote, however, is frequently misunderstood. She did not say 'A rose is a rose is a rose,' as she might well have done, but 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose' (i.e. no indefinite article at the start and three not two repetitions.) The Rose in question was not a flower but an allusion to the English painter, Sir Francis Rose, 'whom she and I regarded' wrote Constantine Fitzgibbon, 'as the peer of Matisse and Picasso, and whose paintings — or at least painting — hung in her Paris drawing-room while a Gauguin was relegated to the lavatory.'" - Sayings of the Century, page 91
Geography and Plays (1922)
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.
“The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer
The Rose that all are praising, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Fred Weatherly (1848–1929) English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster
Song Roses of Picardy http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/rosesofpicardy.htm
“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
“You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Source: You Come Too
“Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, l. 2275
The Canterbury Tales
“The budding rose above the rose full blown.”
William Wordsworth book The Prelude
Bk. XI, l. 121.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Gil Vicente (1456–1536) Portuguese writer
Viera estar rosal florido,
cogí rosas con sospiro:
vengo del rosale.<p>Del rosal vengo, mi madre,
vengo del rosale.
Del rosal vengo, mi madre — "I Come from the Rose-grove, Mother", as translated by J. Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 317
“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher