YourDictionary

purple quotes

  • Th' have left thee naked, Lord,O that they had! Thisgarment too I would they had denied. Thee with thyself they have too richly clad, Opening the purple wardrobe of thy side. O never could be found garments too good For thee to wear, but these, of thine own blood.

    - Richard Crashaw
      'On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody'.

  • Purple haze is in my brain Lately things don't seem the same.

    -Jimi (James Marshall) Hendrix
      'Purple Haze'.

  • Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

    - Ben Jonson
      Volpone, act1, sc.3.

  •    Here is wine, Alive with sparklesnever, I aver, Since Ariadne was a vintager, So cool a purple.

    -John Keats
      Endymion, bk.2, l.441^4.

  • Bring hither the pink and purple columbine, With gillyflowers: Bring coronation, and sops in wine, Worn of paramours. Strew me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Shepherd's Calendar,'April', l.136^41.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Learn more about purple

link/cite print suggestion box