Purple Quotes

370 Purple quotes by 298 unique authors

I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on… — Eudora Welty
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful… — Terry Pratchett
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! — William Shakespeare
So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle… — Edmund Spenser
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
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
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman… — Camille Paglia
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and… — Janet Fitch
purple does something strange to me — Charles Bukowski
People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill. — Alfred Noyes
The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have… — Gerard Way
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a… — Neil Gaiman
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God… — Alice Walker
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and… — Shannon Hale
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk,… — Jack Kerouac
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned… — Anthony Trollope
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed… — Jack Kerouac

Who Wrote These Purple Quotes

298 authors contributed a total of 370 Purple Quotes, led by these top contributors: