Quotes of Iris - somelinesforyou

“ Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together. ”

- Wilfrid Sheed

“ I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory. ”

- Mary McLeod Bethune

“ To people who grumbled at the weather he recommended a garden, as the best of remedies for that commonest of melancholies, for there is no weather that did not suit some plant. In the hottest and driest time the portulacas are burning red in the sand… ”

- Liberty Hyde Bailey
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