Violet Quotes
You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.
the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
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.
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.
I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.
Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
What is green? The grass is green, With small flowers between. What is violet? Clouds are violet In the summer twilight. What is orange? Why, an orange, Just an orange!
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.
Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.
In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.
He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.
Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.
What happened?" he asked brusquely, interrupting me. "What do you mean, what happened?""I sensed your fear, heard you call out my
Is that-am I looking at her beaver?"Mid-swig, I choke on the mouthful of beer, sputtering and coughing. After I recover, I ask jokingly, "'Beaver'? Are you Canadian or something?
Can you enter a house uninvited?""No.""Why?""That would be rude.
If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.
I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.
She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)
Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)
Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.
Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand, Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac treeFrom which a small wood-owl calls.
In case you haven't noticed, we're already involved, Finch. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm broken too.
You're incredible. I can feel your power and it's more than anything I...Violet, " he swallowed, watching me in awe. "It's like...It's like you're as powerful as an angel."-Lincoln