Amethyst Quote by Pliny the Elder

Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them…

— Pliny the Elder

“Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in…

— Christina Rossetti

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's…

— Salman Rushdie

In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose,…

— Victoria Finlay

“the first archer lets his arrow fly, soaring over the crowd and hitting it's mark in a shower of sparks. The bonfire ignites in…

— Erin Morgenstern

The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout history, multifaceted…

— Leatrice Eiseman

From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out…

— Pablo Neruda

“Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient…

— William H. Gass

“The firelight danced on his mask, warming the gold, setting the emeralds glinting. Such colour and variation- colours I didn't know the names of,…

— Sarah J. Maas

Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

— Richelle Mead

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

— Helen Hunt

“A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more…

— George R.R. Martin