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Quotes About Violet

A glance out the window showed the police car's headlights glowing lemon through the violet-hued dusk
~ Barbara Hannay
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels
~ Bash?
Why move it?" asked Violet. She liked the statue just where it was. The Minuteman wasn't very tall — just a little taller than Grandfather — and it was nice to lean against while eating an ice-cream cone.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
The tourmaline eyes were both grave and wicked, and Violet felt herself blushing.
~ Sarah Monette
El perdón es la fragancia que la violeta suelta cuando se levanta el zapato que la aplastó.
~ Mark Twain
Perdón es el aroma que la violeta deja en el zapato que la aplastó.
~ Mark Twain
Her eyes were open and glazed, a piercing shade of violet with fixed, bottomless pupils.
~ Barbara Davis
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
~ Pablo Neruda
I find Rome gentle, magical. The sun had just set, and the light was extraordinary-- smoky-rosy-golden-violet, light that cannot be captured in a photo or, for that matter, in words.
~ Bill Hayes
In time he grew so impatient of the bleak intervals of day that he began buying drugs in order to increase his periods of sleep. Hasheesh helped a great deal, and once sent him to a part of space where form does not exist, but where glowing gases study the secrets of existence. And a violet-coloured gas told him that this part of space was outside what he had called infinity.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
As the iron door swung open, I followed Summer into a plain, gray stone room that held the strangest object I'd ever seen by far. A giant frame, four by four of nothing but obsidian blocks. But instead of a picture, this frame encased a curtain of energy. At least, that's the best way I can describe it. Swirling, purplish pink eddies attracted glowing violet flakes that seemed to appear out of nowhere. And the sound: a high, echoing rasp. Was it breathing? Was it alive?
~ Max Brooks
At the door stood the strangest, most beautiful being Alphonia had ever seen, a silver-haired mage with violet eyes, neither female nor male, but both, as all the most powerful mages are.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Other fragrances are believed to enhance psychic ability—the ability to perceive spirits. These include lilac, rosemary, violet, and wisteria. The fragrance of myrrh is traditionally believed to open portals to spirit realms.
~ Judika Illes
I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.
~ Julia Quinn
I've always thought that violet ribbons look especially nice with brown hair.
~ Julia Quinn
Where is he?" Violet demanded without preamble. "My husband, I presume?" "No, your great-uncle Edmund," Violet practically snapped. "Of course I mean your husband.
~ Julia Quinn
The rain is freedom; it has always been like that in L.A. It's freedom from smog and unbroken dreary hateful sameness, it's freedom to look out the window and think of London and little violets and Paris and cobblestones. It's freedom to be cozy. Cozy! You can be cozy and not even have to go to San Francisco.
~ Eve Babitz
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
~ Fran Lebowitz
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea
~ T. S. Eliot
Al llegar al corazón el tiempo no puede ya medirse, y en la infinita rosa violeta del centro el cronopio encuentra un gran contento...
~ Julio Cortazar
Dolor paterno en fa sostenido, carcajada sarcástica en amarillo, violeta y negro.
~ Julio Cortazar
I have to hold your hand to establish the connection," Cole said. "I bet you use that on all the girls," Violet replied. Cole noticed Harmony turning away to cover a laugh. Violet held out her hand. "Try not to fall in love," Cole said, gingerly touching a couple of her fingers.
~ Brandon Mull
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.
~ Thomas Buchanan Read
The stylist works by contrast. After a season of violet, one can predict a season of yellow.
~ Bruno Munari