“Rose is in red,
But never in blue,
Sharp as a thorn,
Fights like one too.”
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“Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.”
Variant: Roses are red
Violets are blue
Be very afraid
We're coming for you.
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“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”
Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. VIII of X
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He Made the saying popular on a T-Shirt he wore.
"Now Some Comic Relief" (1989)
“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
“But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
The Narrow Way (1848)
Context: On all her breezes borne
Earth yields no scents like those;
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
“Romantic: one who professes to prefer the thorns to the rose.”
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
"The Rose" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Flower of all hue, and without thorn the rose", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.; "Every rose has it's thorn", Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Hesperides (1648)