Purple Quotes
370 Purple quotes by 298 unique authors
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He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.
— Amanda Hocking
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Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet…
— Richelle Mead
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You can’t miss your schedule. Every morning, you’re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside…
— Suzanne Collins
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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to…
— Alan Watts
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
— Ralph Ellison
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Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a…
— Lauren Oliver
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I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him “bruised” would be an understatement. His face…
— Veronica Roth
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I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm trees,…
— Rick Riordan
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When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in…
— Susane Colasanti
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Tell me where you want it,” I said. Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. “You’re asking me?” “Well, unless you want…
— Kim Harrison
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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
— Anne Fadiman
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And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple…
— Rick Riordan
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What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting
— Richelle Mead
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I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience." "I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little." "Aren't you lucky." The Reverend's chin dipped…
— J R Ward
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May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!
— Patricia C. Wrede
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One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with…
— Veronica Roth
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Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
— John Green
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Check this out,” Nine says. He holds up a small purple stone and then places it on the back of his hand. The stone slides…
— Pittacus Lore
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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who Wrote These Purple Quotes
298 authors contributed a total of 370 Purple Quotes, led by these top contributors: