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Quotes About Violet

Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves. But
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet ("Oil and Blood")
~ W.B. Yeats
It was the first breath of the new moon, but the whole of it was visible, a perfect ball of violet and indigo cupped in a sickle of light, luminous among the stars.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The shadows of the tombstones in the graveyard stretched out long and violet, and the sound of the flies buzzed in my ears, louder than the ringing of the shots that still came—were coming closer—to the frail barrier of the dead.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Lord John's response to the revelation of my identity was both puzzling and disturbing; you would think the man had seen a ghost. I squinted at my violet reflection, admiring the glitter of the black-and-gold fish at my throat, but failed to see anything unsettling in my appearance.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Drag Race' is a huge opportunity for us to elevate drag culture, to tell our stories. It really is a career-maker.
~ Violet Chachki
I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
~ Fergie
My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet.
~ Jim Starlin
My name itself is extremely campy. Violet Chachki literally translates to purple doodad.
~ Violet Chachki
Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.
~ Louis Auchincloss
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~ Mark Twain
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.
~ Lydia Millet
We got some that were plain and some cinnamon. I liked the cinnamon better. Violet said that it was important to start with the plain, so that the cinnamon seemed more like a change. She said she had a theory that everything was better if you delayed it. She had this whole thing about self-control, okay, and the importance of self-control.
~ Unknown
It's a Baron de Sigognac XO." Guy swirled his glass and stuck his nose inside it as Lucien had done. He moved the glass away and then went back down for another sniff. "Christmas-cake spiced fruits, vanilla- I'd even say custard- with hints of rose and violet," he said.
~ Unknown
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are?
~ John Milton
Las rosas son rojas, La violetas azul turquesa, Ven pronto a casa, Lo conseguiremos, princesa.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~ Mark Twain
The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~ Mark Twain
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~ Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.
~ Mark Twain
She sits by her window. She sips at her tea. She waits for her love, To return from the sea. Her suitors come calling. She watches the tides, And all the while Violet bides.
~ Patrick Rothfuss