quotes about Violet
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violets are God's apology for February ...
-- Barbara Johnson -
Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.
-- Benny Hill -
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
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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 ElliottSource : Ebenezer Elliott (1834). “Elliott's Poems: The village patriarch, Love, and other poems”, p.284
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Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
-- Ellen Bass -
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.
-- Farkas Bolyai -
The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.
-- Fredrika Bremer -
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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
-- Henry James -
Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.
-- Jessica Fellowes -
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.
-- Jose Lezama LimaSource : José Lezama Lima (2005). “José Lezama Lima: Selections”, p.9, Univ of California 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 -
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I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
-- Robert Burns -
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.
-- Thomas Buchanan ReadSource : Thomas Buchanan Read (1847). “Poems”, p.54
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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.
-- Wallace Stevens -
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
-- William MaxwellSource : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”
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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.
-- Patrick O'Brian