"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."

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"I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."

"I like perfume and flowers."

"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"

"I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect."

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"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."