Violet Quotes

• Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Rhyme

• Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Said
  • Woven
  • Violet

• A violet 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
  • Violet
  • Lay
  • Shepherdess

• That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Air
  • Yields
  • Violet

• Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spring
  • Flower
  • Lap

• There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Eye

• Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Drinks
  • Blaze
  • Azure

• 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.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Sleep
  • Deep
  • Vapor

• “Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Loved
  • Say
  • Expect

• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Learned
  • Vibrations
  • Violet