Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton Copy Share Image
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Took her [Ms. Whitlock] long enough to grade it." He mumbles. True. "But it took us forever to turn it in. She… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The puckered-up face of the newly-born child, old as the world, wise as the roots of trees. Sin was there and goodness,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shit, I don’t know what the hell I’m saying. Violet is turning me into a fucking pansy. I used to be a… — Sara Ney Copy Share Image
There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts... There’s fennel for you, and columbines; there’s… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Though she hated to stop kissing, Luce held Daniel's warm face in her hands. She gazed into his violet eyes, trying to… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“Yeah, you lose this attitude, I can help you work that hurt out.” Who was this man? He held onto his tragedy… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“You said not to fall for you. Did you change your mind?' 'Absolutely not.' His jaw tenses. 'Right.' I don't expect that… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
“They lay there like that, in a different kind of silence now, watching the lake and the stars, listening to the night,… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
“But you're mine, Violet Bates. And I'm going to fight for you, beside you, and probably with you, and it will be… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“If I asked you to stay behind, would you?' His eyes bore into mine. 'No.' 'Exactly. I try not to pick fights… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze. — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
“What are you doing a study on right now?" "A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Violet’s last visit—not two months ago, at the beginning of the summer—Violet seemed …” — Jessica Strawser Copy Share Image