Violet Quotes

189 quotes by 137 authors

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. — Hal Borland
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. — Robert Burns
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early… — Farkas Bolyai
Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. — Diane Ackerman
Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two. — Gerry Cheevers
That queen of secrecy, the violet. — John Keats
Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. — Julia Caroline Dorr
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets… — Richard Hovey
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's… — Vincent Van Gogh
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another. — Thomas Buchanan Read
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. — Fran Lebowitz
I've been trying to redefine fragrance since I was a child - before I was ten. Throughout my life, certain fragrance notes have captured my… — Lolita Lempicka
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey
What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earthâ€¦. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spotsâ€¦. When I watched… — Yuri Gagarin
A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a… — Melanie McGrath
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the… — George Bernard Shaw

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