Violet Quotes - Page 5

• The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
  A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
  Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
  Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
  And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
  Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.

  Bayard Taylor

  Rain, Rocks, Flames

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• Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Fall, Sleep

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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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

  Fire, Tea, Afternoon

  Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”

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• Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Running, Sweet, Prayer

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• 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 the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Wrinkles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Spring, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.10

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• Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

  Daniel Handler

  World, Safe, Olaf

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• Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke." Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?" "Not particularly." "Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Son, Trying

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• Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. "Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak.

  Lisi Harrison

  Fun, Eye, Uggs

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• His eyes burned violet - not with anger but with intense desire. The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Desire, Looks

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.416, Delacorte Press

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• 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.

  Keke Palmer

  People, Shrinking, Disrespectful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Spring, Flower, Garden

  Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Orange, Keys

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The mountain violets break the rocks.

  Tennessee Williams

  Strength, Rocks, Mountain

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• A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Epic, Doctors

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, l. 352

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• Roses are reddish
  Violets are bluish
  If it weren't for Christmas
  We'd all be Jewish.

  Benny Hill

  Christmas, Reality, Rose

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you.

  Ralphie May

  Blue, Rose, Balls

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• The country ever has a lagging Spring,
  Waiting for May to call its violets forth,
  And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,
  Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
  To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
  And one by one the singing-birds come back.
  
  Within the city's bounds the time of flowers
  Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day,
  Such as full often, for a few bright hours,
  Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May,
  Shine on our roofs and chase the wintry gloom-
  And lo! our borders glow with sudden bloom.

  William C. Bryant

  Country, Spring, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Spring In Town”

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• I had not thought of violets of late,
  The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
  In wistful April days.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Spring, Feet, Shy

  Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

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• She bathed with roses red,
  And violets blew.
  And all the sweetest flowres
  That in the forrest grew.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Rose, Red

  Edmund Spenser (2003). “The Faerie Queene”, p.704, Penguin UK

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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 o'er each unforgotten head.

  Richard Hovey

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Cheer

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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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

  Science, Discovery, Woods

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• Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

  L. J. Smith

  Hurt, Stars, Taken

  L J Smith (2010). “Nightfall”, p.100, Hachette UK

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