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Quotes About Violets

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.
~ Herman Melville
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I like the idea of different theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass, a Bronx where people talk like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow kind, perhaps in the nook of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed anyone.
~ Bob Hicok
Walking away barefoot on the soft loam, with mist rising in ribbons all around her, Etty tucked the year's first violets into her hair.
~ Nancy Springer
Roses are red Violets are blue Be very afraid We're coming for you.
~ Gena Showalter
Roses are Red Violets are Blue Zombies are Dead And soon you be too - Frosty, Zombie Slayer
~ Gena Showalter
A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.
~ George Arnold
Roses are red, love; violets are blue. Birds in the heavens know I love you.
~ Suzanne Collins
roses are red, violets are blue. a clown killed a boy, and ate him up too.
~ Tim Burton
Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain, For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
~ Thomas Percy
The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
~ Tennessee Williams
We must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were his temples.
~ Virginia Woolf
She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets.
~ Virginia Woolf
The Soul can hear the violets grow! It can hear the throbbing heart of God!
~ leibfreed edwin ii
When the poet closed her eyes the wingspan of the great horned owl cast a tawny shadow over the green immense forests. The owl returned to the forsaken nests of migrating buntings, entered the perfect circle in the heart of cypress, and found the misplaced opal, the color of buttermilk tinted with the inks of crushed violets. The
~ Pat Conroy
Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
I remember how angry she was when Taryn and I gave in to Faerie and started having fun. Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night. But to hold a blade in my hand, a blade like the one that killed my parents, and think it was a toy, she'd have to believe I was heartless.
~ Holly Black
Roses are red, and here is something new, violets are violet not really blue.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness is the beautiful fragrance left on the heel of the shoe after stepping on a bunch of violets.
~ Unknown
And there were ruined castles covered with ivy - the badge of the old order, clinging to its own; and into the ivy doves dived, seeming to leave in their wake a trail of amethyst, just as a clump of bottle-green leaves is shot with purple by the knowledge that it hides violets.
~ Unknown
Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate, painted and gratuitous, hinting that the Creator is solely occupied with aesthetic considerations, and combines disparate objects simply because they look so well together, and that thing will admirably fill the role of a flower.
~ Unknown
Roses are red violets are blue I'm skitzafranic and so am I!
~ Unknown
Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.
~ Benny Hill