Mauve Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the…
— Sherman Alexie
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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio,…
— John Lahr
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat…
— Mao Zedong
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In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the…
— Forrest Gander
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Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there…
— James M. Barrie
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There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour.…
— Hans Heysen
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Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe…
— Marge Piercy
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Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
— James Whistler
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The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill…
— Michael Ende
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Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
— Margaret Atwood
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And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now…
— William H. Gass
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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
— Oscar Wilde
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They’re not hideous,†said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?†“Gideon and Gabriel,†said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.†“I spoke, 
— Cassandra Clare
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And what colour do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?' 'Mauve,' said Will.
— Cassandra Clare
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Do you ever wonder what it would be like to visit a New Testament church service? I imagine it would be a far cry from…
— John Hagee
Who Wrote These Mauve Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Mauve Quotes as follows: