"If there is a fruit that can..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

“Women's glances express what they dare not speak.”

“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”

“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”

“I am a thing of beauty.”

“I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.”

“There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.”

“Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.”