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Violet Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek…
- Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose…
- The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to…
More Violet Quotes
- You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Benjamin Disraeli