Violet Quotes

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

Violets are God's apology for February.

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, for to be born here is an unspeakable feast, a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.

Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.

If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.