Flower Constancy

Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or constancy:

    “Not a flower, not a flower sweet
    On my black coffin let there be strewn.
    Not a friend, not a friend greet
    My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
    A thousand thousand sighs to save,
    Lay me, O, where
    Sad true lover never find my grave,
    To weep there.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The constancy of the wise is nothing else but the knack of concealing their passion and trouble.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)