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Quotes About Purple

Margarete Matzenauer reveled in the gorgeous opulence of her royal purple voice.
~ H. E. Krehbiel, 1920
I'm a romance novelist slash romance junkie slash eternal believer that love conquers all... I'm also a tiny bit dramatic in my thought process. For example, a purple flower is not a purple flower, but a violet colored masterpiece given to man from God in order to capture a lady's heart. As I said, I'm dramatic.
~ C.P. Smith, Property Of, 2015
I love, till my heart is red as February and purple as March.
~ Emily Dickinson
My favorite color is fuschia. That's a fancy way of saying purple.
~ Jane O'Connor
He's a Stone Dead gang member. He'll be hanging with the other Deads, and the Deads own the fifth block of Stark. Their color is purple. Their name is significant. These losers are dead inside. They've grown up with so much violence it's normal to them. They're like zombies. They feel no remorse. You do not want to go up against one of them. If you find this guy I want you to call me, and I'll send out the SWAT team..
~ Janet Evanovich
alive, crystal in your own crystal, fire in your own fire, ray of purple stone.
~ Pablo Neruda
Every Easter she and her mother planted those crocuses near the fence beside the driveway, and soon enough a whole cluster of them, white and purple and pink, sprang annually like magic
~ Christina Baker Kline
The snow turned purple, a deep, dark contemplative color.
~ Helen Fremont
Perhaps it was evening, the bruised plum of dusk
~ Helen Fremont
I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.
~ Jean Paul Sarte
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
~ Hamish Bowles
So Turtle had enchanted a strand of purple kelp, wound three times around his upper arm, to make him just a bit faster than some of his brothers.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Het licht bleef uit de lucht lekken, blauw, omrand door paars en toen, daaronder, dikke stroken roest en oranje.
~ Dave Eggers
Cincinnati, I thought, was the most beautiful of the inland cities of the Union. From the tower of its unsurpassed hotel the city spreads far and wide its pageant of crimson, purple and gold, laced by silver streams that are great rivers.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The sun, having set not too long ago, left a purplish stain on the sky.
~ Clinton Kelly
I think that expression is so great. So I'll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.
~ Graham Elliot
I was in a band called Episode Six with Roger Glover, which was more of a harmony band, really. At one gig, there were a few dodgy characters leaning up against the wall of the venue - and we ended up joining their band. Purple was the talk of every musician in the country - they had something new and very exciting.
~ Ian Gillan
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.
~ Eugene Chadbourne
Helena, hermosa flor púrpura, el tormento de toda una ciudad sacrificada a su belleza...
~ Unknown
Sheba's outfits tend to be very complicated – lots of floaty layers. I know she was wearing purple shoes. And there was definitely a long skirt involved, because I remember thinking that it was in imminent danger of becoming entangled in her spokes. When she dismounted – with a lithe, rather irritating, little skip – I saw that the skirt was made of some diaphanous material. Fey was the word that swam into my mind. Fey person, I thought.
~ Zoë Heller
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
An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!
~ Jim Butcher
Thomas scowled. "An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.
~ Jim Butcher
Like a pair of looms, using sunshine and their own silhouettes, two enormous California live oaks wove veils of gold and purple, which they flung across the driveway.
~ Dean Koontz