Purple Quotes
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O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell! O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell!
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Songs of Seven, Seven Times One.
He bore a simple wild-flower wreath: Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose; Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows With purple bells; the amaranth bright, That no decay, nor fading knows, Like true love's holiest, rarest light; And every purest flower, that blows In that sweet time, which Love most blesses, When spring on summer's confines presses.
thomas love peacock— Rhododaphne, Canto I, line 107.
There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.
sam walter foss— The Land of Git-Thare, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
For the first time, I wasn’t embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn’t have to be separated.. ..I have always said that you shouldn’t have biases, you shouldn’t have prejudices. But before that (his trip to India around 1975, fh) I’d never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.
Robert Rauschenberg— p. 206 (Rauschenberg / Art and Live, 1990)
Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk The hoar plume of the golden-rod. And on a ground of sombre fir, And azure-studded juniper, The silver birch its buds of purple shows, And scarlet berries tell where bloomed the sweet wild-rose!
— [[John Greenleaf Whittier, The Last Walk in Autumn.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, in Hebrew Melodies (1815).
Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
bert mccracken— Statement about Hurricane Katrina on website of The Used, reported in L. Martinez (September 10, 2005) "Rockers plug in for Katrina", Ventura County Star, p. 1.
By the waters of Life we sat together,Hand in hand, in the golden daysOf the beautiful early summer weather,When skies were purple and breath was praise.
thomas noel— An old Man’s Idyll, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
One naked star has waded throughThe purple shadows of the night,And faltering as falls the dewIt drips its misty light.
james whitcomb riley— The Beetle.
They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk.
vitruvius— Chapter XIV, Sec. 2
To strew thy green with flowers; the yellows, blues, The purple violets, and marigolds.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 1, line 15.
Wondrous interlacement! Holding fast to threads by green and silky rings, With the dawn it spreads its white and purple wings; Generous in its bloom, and sheltering while it clings, Sturdy morning-glory.
helen hunt jackson— Helen Hunt Jackson, Morning-Glory; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 530.
Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower In chambers purple with the Alpine glow, Wrapped in the spotless ermine of the snow And rocked by tempests!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To the River Rhone, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 673.
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— 1579 The Shepherd's Calendar,'April', l.136-41.
O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Tennyson— 1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.
A solemn gladness even crowned The purple brows of Olivet.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 31, l.11-12.
You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you.
donald justice— Poem
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
lord byron— The Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 1
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires a sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of Victory As he defeated dying On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!
— 67: Success is counted sweetest
What had sounded like a great idea in the newsroom, ended up being the longest and most embarrassing moment of my life. Cameras clicked away and Pricasso kept rubbing his bum with colours of purple, pink and orange against my likeness.
— The Star staff (28 September 2012). "Pricasso's the name, painting the game". The Star (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 3.
Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light. O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.
thomas kibble hervey— Thomas Kibble Hervey, The Convict Ship.
Bathed in the tenderest purple of distance, Tinted and shadowed by pencils of air, Thy battlements hang o'er the slopes and the forests, Seats of the gods in the limitless ether, Looming sublimely aloft and afar.
bayard taylor— Bayard Taylor, Kilimandjaro.
They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk.
— Chapter XIV, Sec. 2 (Book VII)
The gold-eyed kingcups fine, The frail bluebell peereth over Rare broidery of the purple clover.
— Alfred Tennyson, A Dirge, Stanza 6.
Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres; Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower Foredates its hundred years.
bayard taylor— Bayard Taylor, Canopus, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 574.
purple haze is in my brain. Lately things don't seem the same.
— 1967 'Purple Haze'.
Ah, yes, I wrote the "purple Cow"—I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;But I can tell you AnyhowI'll Kill you if you Quote it!
gelett burgess— Poem Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue (1897)
— Reacting to the many parodies of his poem
