“It was the time when lilies blow,
And clouds are highest up in air.
Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe
To give his cousin, Lady Clare.”

“Give lilies with full hands.”
Manibus date lilia plenis.

“All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.”

“The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”

“The ladies of St. James’s!
They’re painted to the eyes;
Their white it stays forever
Their red it never dies:
But Phillida, my Phillida!
Her color comes and goes;
It trembles to a lily,—
It wavers to a rose.”

“How do you want to make white lilies into red roses? Kiss a white Galatea and she will blushingly laugh.”

“As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful".
Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.”

“Oh no, better to be silent. That is what the glacier does. That is what the lilies of the field do.”

“One of the most serious obstacles to genuine diversification is that on most campuses the faculty remains lily-white and male”

“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”