Flowery

Ian Anderson

British Musician

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Tobias Hill

British Poet

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

Lynn Coady

Canadian Novelist

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

Kenneth Grahame

Scottish Novelist

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

Mellody Hobson

American Businessman

People can be sensitive, so if I need to, I'll suck it up and be more flowery. I'll do what it takes to get the outcome I want. As I like to say, sometimes you have to crouch to conquer.

Sarah Millican

I never got up on stage and thought, 'I'll wear a flowery top so I can talk about dark evil things,' but it just so happens that that's the way I dress.

William M. Daley

American Politician

You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.

Irvine Welsh

Scottish Novelist

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

Frank Knox

American Public Servant

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Ellie Goulding

English Musician

I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.