Blue lotus may refer to:
- Nymphaea caerulea, also known as the Blue Egyptian water lily, an aquatic flower native to Egypt
- Nymphaea nouchali, also known as the Red and blue water lily, Blue star water lily or Star lotus,an aquatic flower native to the Indian subcontinent
- Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus, Bean of India, or simply Lotus, an aquatic flower native to tropical Asia and Queensland, Australia
- The Blue Lotus, a book in the Tintin series
Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or lotus:
“Sometimes we see a cloud that’s dragonish,
A vapor sometimes like a bear or lion,
A towered citadel, a pendant rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon ‘t that nod unto the world
And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs;
They are black vesper’s pageants.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk:
Who made the world and ruleth it, He hangeth on a stalk,
For I am in His image made, and all this tinkling tide
Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)