Violet Quotes

• Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Stars, Snow, Darkness

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1872). “Poems”, p.80

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• That queen of secrecy, the violet.

  John Keats

  Queens, Flower, Secrecy

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.199

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Dwelling, Bright Star

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• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Flower, Rose

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Violets are God's apology for February.

  Barbara Johnson

  Apology, February

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.22, Zondervan

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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Kissing, Looks, Ifs

  "The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery".

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• This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Believe, Shadow, Watches

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• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  Edna Ferber

  Inspirational, Women, Memorable

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

  Edwin Arnold

  Light, Blue, White

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.68

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• When April steps aside for May,
  Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
  Fresh violets open every day:
  To some new bird each hour we listen.

  Lucy Larcom

  Rain, Bird, May

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• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Nature, Flower

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humorous, Flower

  "Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• 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 and free from blame.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smell, Soul, Green

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Lap

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 46

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• I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [106]

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• The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spring, Eye, Azure

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.184

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• Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.

  William Wetmore Story

  Memories, Spring, Keys

  William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.256

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

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

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Golden, Azure, Sun

  Ebenezer Elliott (1834). “Elliott's Poems: The village patriarch, Love, and other poems”, p.284

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• Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Eye, Years

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

  John Keats

  Moss, May, Shade

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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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 own — What are you when the rose is blown?

  Henry Wotton

  Spring, Years, Purple

  Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14

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• And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blue, Wind, Wings

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