Violets Quotes
171 quotes by 151 authors
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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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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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Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.
— Thomas Buchanan Read
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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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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
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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
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Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.
— Edwin Arnold
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
— Constance Spry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The mountain violets break the rocks.
— Tennessee Williams
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Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you.
— Ralphie May
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