80 Tulip Quotes About The Graceful Charming Flower

Stop and smell the tulips and check out these fun tulip quotes.

Who doesn’t love tulips?

Tulips are world-renowned for their beauty and radiance.

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Research by the Tulip Psychology Research Center has found that people who receive tulips as a gift are more likely to feel happy and grateful than those who receive other types of flowers.

The bright colors and sweet fragrances of tulips are thought to have a positive effect on mood.

What are the benefits of reading these tulip quotes?

Tulips originated in Turkey.

They were first cultivated as early as 1000 AD.

The word tulip comes from an old Turkish word for turban, which looks very similar to the flower.

Tulip mania was a real thing, literally.

In the 1600s, the popularity of tulips went global.

At one point, the market for tulips was so intense the flower was worth more than diamonds.

Today the tulip is one of the world’s most recognized flowers.

We have over 150 species of tulips on our planet.

Of those species, there are 3000 varieties of tulips!

Tulips come in a large spectrum of colors, including:

• yellow
• red
• purple
• white

Different cultures and countries worldwide hold annual tulip festivals, where people come together to enjoy the beauty of the tulip.

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The Tulip Research Institute conducted a study that found that tulips are the most popular flower in the world, accounting for 25% of all flower sales. 

Their vibrant colors and variety of shapes make them a favorite for both gardeners and florists.

1. “Be a tulip in a field of weeds.” — Anonymous

2. “Shine bright like a tulip.” — Anonymous

3. “Tulips heaven bloom in adversity.” — Anonymous

4. “The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “Don’t just live—bloom.” — Anonymous

6. “Life isn’t a tiptoe through the tulips.” — Shannon Hoon

7. “Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy.” — Rebecca Wells

8. “And in the end, love tastes like Tulips having rain tea in a colored cup.” — Fathima Shamla

9. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon

10. “In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.” — Albert Camus

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According to a study by the Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, tulips have been cultivated for over 400 years.

The study highlights that there are more than 3,000 different varieties of tulips in existence.

11. “Tulips were a tray of jewels.” — E. M. Forster

12. “I want to preserve your love in a field of Tulips, safely living in it.” — Fathima Shamla

13. “Let yourself go. You’re bound to bloom.” — Anonymous

14. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn

15. “Every flower must grow through dirt.” — Laurie Jean Sennott

16. “When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers.” — Adam Cohen

17. “A world of grief and pain, flowers bloom—even then.” — Kobayashi Issa

18. “Here tulips bloom as they are told; Unkempt about those hedges blows an English unofficial rose.” — Rupert Brooke

19. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” — Shannon Mullen

20. “I’m going to do an adaptation of the Italian film Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.” — Norman Jewison

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21. “A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose.” — Marianne Williamson

22. “Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.”— Justina Chen

23. “Even when petals have flaws, all you see is a beautiful flower.” — Adrianne Elizabeth

24. “If a purple tulip could talk, she would say something calm, cool, and wise, without the flash of a soothing balm.” — Amelia Brown

25. “Snow is on both sides of the same page. It covers the grave and the tulip.” — Richard L. Ratliff

26. “Like tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, bending beneath the invisible west-wind’s sighs.” — Thomas Moore

27. “She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.” — Joseph Fink

28. “Sweet scents, red tulips. Red tulips bring such happiness. Our hearts are full of pleasure.” — Natasa Tocuc

29. “Tiptoe through the tulips with me.” — Al Dubin

30. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

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31. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” — Okakura Kakuzo

32. “The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably.” — Alexandre Dumas

33. “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” — Leigh Bardugo

34. “I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!” — Akilnathan Logeswaran

35. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” — Sigmund Freud

36. “So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it.” — Tadashi Shoji

37. “How sweetly lies old earthdressed up in the blooming attire of spring.” — John Muir

38. “How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing?” — Mary Astell

39. “Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can’t trust over night.” — Constance Spry

40. “Dreaming of wandering in the tulip fields.” — Anonymous

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41. Tulips may spring from the deadest ground, even in winter.” — Emily Dickinson

42. “Anyone know how flowers whistle? Through their tulips.” — Anonymous

43. “Dutch tulips from their beds, flaunted their stately heads.” — James Montgomery

44. “You’re strictly a tulip girl—a red tulip girl.” — Alyson Noel

45. “Still life with tulips. We all need beauty in our lives.” — Anonymous

46. “Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss, and poses, the satin of their darks.” — Margaret Atwood

47. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change.” — Buddha

48. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

49.”Tulips are the smile of the garden.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

50. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” — Jim Carrey

Tulip Quotes To Show The Beauty Of Nature

51. “Tulips were a tray of jewels.” ― E.M. Forster

52. “I set out to find my peace in the skies and the tulips,in the howling of the winds, in the rain under the shed and it was right there residing within me.” ― Suyasha Subedi

53. “I’m a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up.” ― Fiona Apple

54. “She’s like a tulip that’s still gorgeous even though she just can’t open up.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones

55. “On my first day shooting ‘13 Going on 30,’ Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I’ll never forget them.” — Christa B. Allen

56. “In a flowerpot of love lives a beautiful tulip plant, and then was the passer-by with words to attract it; for, it was just like a passing glance and the sense of love, and they were both attracted to each other.” — Edward Kofi Louis

57. “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” — Joseph Addison

58. “Guarded within the old red wall’s embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry wheels out into the sunlight.” — Amy Lowell

59. “The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourishes the red tulips of our nation.” — Mahmud Tarzi 

60. “Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tulip Quotes That Capture The Essence Of Tulips

61. “Contempt for flowers is an offense against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offense in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably.” — Alexandre Dumas

62. “You believe in God, for your part, ay? That He who makes, can make good things from ill things, best from worst, as men plant tulips upon dunghills when they wish them finest.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

63. “‘Tulip Fever’ did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off—it opened doors to whole other worlds.” — Deborah Moggach

64. “Almost every person from childhood has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.” — Lady Bird Johnson

65. “He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love with someone, but that you ‘had love toward’ her, as if it were a physical thing you could present and hold—a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness.” — Jodi Picoult 

66. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” — Veronica A. Shoffstall

67. “And tulips, children love to stretch their fingers down—to feel in each Its beauty’s secret nearer.” — Elizabeth Browning

68. “All my tulips are white. She liked them red. I stained them with my blood and she came running for a hug.” — Kalyan Reddy

69. “One feels and thinks in clever daffodils and pinks; in puns of tulips; and in phrases, charming for their truth, of daisies.” — Leigh Hunt

70. “Daffodils blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials” — Monty Don

71. The tulip is a courtly queen, Whom, therefore, I will treat as such.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

72. “The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.” — Isaac Watts

73. “Tulips are the supermodels of the flower world.” — A. A. Gill

74. “Tulips… are a source of inspiration to all who dare to seek beauty in its many colors and forms.” — Juila Kristeva

75. “Every tulip is a soul blossoming in nature.” — Gerard De Nerval

76. “A tulip doesn’t lose its petals in search of a rose.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

Tulips are beautiful

People love tulips!

The admiration for the flower is rightfully earned.

Fashion designer Tadashi Shoji described the tulip as a flower of “beauty and grace of charm, refinement, and distinction. It is a powerful flower, and it knows it.”

There are many reasons to love tulips.

Did you know tulips were edible?

Tulip petals can replace onions in many meals.

They give a wonderful flavor to dishes.

Tulips are even used to make delicious floral wine.

The symmetry of Tulips might help explain why people like them so much

Human beings also love symmetry.

We find symmetrical faces attractive; we are drawn to different symmetry in life.

The flower buds of the tulip are often admired because they are a product of nature that is perfectly symmetrical.

Humans also enjoy immediate results!

The tulip is a flower that can literally bloom overnight, so people enjoy the short turnaround in which its delicate petals burst out and brighten up our world.

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