Purple Quotes · Page 7

My favourite accessory is a pair of long purple leather gloves.

— Lucy Worsley

Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech…

— Ogden Nash

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste…

— Robert Greene

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine…

— William Butler Yeats

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew.…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting…

— Carl Rogers

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

— Ron Kovic

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the…

— Whoopi Goldberg

Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and…

— Ian Gillan

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of…

— Connie Britton

I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel…

— Maria Bamford

In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow and purple, and…

— Gigi Hadid

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

— Emma Watson

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs…

— Christina Rossetti

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder…

— Alfred the Great

purple does something strange to me

— Charles Bukowski

My name itself is extremely campy. Violet Chachki literally translates to purple doodad.

— Violet Chachki

I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned…

— Jim Benton

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed…

— Anthony Trollope

Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

— Cam'ron

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

— William Shakespeare