Vases Quotes

Vases Quote of the day

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

Flowers are an education in a vase.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

Some broken vases can still hold beautiful flowers