#flower

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#bourgeoisie #class #exist #fine #flower

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#fragrance #giving #mind #out #rank

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#another #becomes #bit #continual #exercises

I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#cakes #designers #develop #experiment #fashion

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#admirers #ago #been #buried #cemetery

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#dress #especially #flower #heat #i

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#flower #laughs #longer #smiles #vase

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#expression #fine #flower #garden #letters