Jenny Joseph quotes

“When I am old, I shall wear purple”
-- Jenny Joseph

Source : "Older and wiser: Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems of ageing". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.

#Purple Quotes

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.”
-- Jenny Joseph

Source : "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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“I can't stand purple. It doesn't suit me.”
-- Jenny Joseph

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“I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.”
-- Jenny Joseph

Source : The Observer, April 19, 1998.

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“The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.”
-- Jenny Joseph

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“Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.”

“White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.”

Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, p.19, Delacorte Press

“You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.”

“When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan

“Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!”

Source : "ASAP Rocky’s Misguided Beauty Advice, Rapper Says Dark Skin Girls Shouldn’t Wear Red Lipstick" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

“parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.”

“When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!”

“Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.”

Source : "Rockers Plug In for Katrina". Ventura County Star, September 10, 2005.

“The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.”

Source : Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.

“I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.”