Violets Quotes

171 quotes by 151 authors

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble… — Christina Rossetti
Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our… — Leigh Hunt
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang. — Heinrich Heine
The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. — Heinrich Heine
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. — Heinrich Heine
And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. — John Keats
Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's… — William Wordsworth
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. — Edna Ferber
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. — Oscar Levant
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. — Bernard Williams
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. — Tennessee Williams
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;… — Vincent Van Gogh
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point… — D. H. Lawrence
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,… — Marcel Proust
Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers — E E Cummings
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was… — Jodi Picoult

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