Violets Quotes

171 quotes by 151 authors

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
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
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another. — Thomas Buchanan Read
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
When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on… — William Shakespeare
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. — William Maxwell
Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. — Edwin Arnold
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets â€“ that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds… — Robert Loveman
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. — Derek Jarman
You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your… — Henry Wotton
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and… — Victor Hugo
The mountain violets break the rocks. — Tennessee Williams
Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you. — Ralphie May

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