Violet Quotes
189 quotes by 137 authors
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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
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
— Robert Burns
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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
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Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.
— Diane Ackerman
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Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two.
— Gerry Cheevers
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
— John Keats
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Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.
— Julia Caroline Dorr
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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
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I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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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
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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
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Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.
— Thomas Buchanan Read
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Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
— Fran Lebowitz
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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
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
— Edward Abbey
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What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched…
— Yuri Gagarin
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Violet Quotes
137 authors contributed a total of 189 Violet Quotes, led by these top contributors: