“ Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
“ Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
“ The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read. ”
- Christina G. Rossetti- Copy
“ Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
“ The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
“ Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years? ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
“ Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth? ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
“ And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
“ The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time. ”
- James Montgomery- Copy
“ Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way — Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
“ Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
“ Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
“ In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. ”
- Frank Capra- Copy
“ Just explain to Monsieur Renoir that the torso of a woman is not a mass of decomposing flesh, its green and violet spots indicating the state of complete putrefaction of a corpse. ”
- Albert Wolff- Copy
“ Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
“ Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
“ EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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