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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -- Mark Twain
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years? -- James Russell Lowell
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
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
That queen of secrecy, the violet. -- John Keats
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -- Tennessee Williams
Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. -- Julia Caroline Dorr
Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. -- Edwin Arnold
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. -- Oscar Levant
The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. -- Heinrich Heine
Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring? -- William Shakespeare
Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above. -- Heinrich Heine
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. -- Henry James
I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat. -- Djuna Barnes
Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. -- William Shakespeare
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. -- Heinrich Heine
Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze. -- Ebenezer Elliott
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free. -- William Wetmore Story
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
The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. -- Leigh Hunt
I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run. -- Fergie
Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub. -- Julia Quinn
I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO. -- Dave Grohl
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How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny. -- Daniel Handler
Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet -- Julia Quinn
I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument. -- Julia Quinn
Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber. -- Allison Sipe
Violet, the Dowager Countess: "I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. -- Jessica Fellowes
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. -- Fran Lebowitz
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. -- Daniel Handler
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
My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting. -- Matt Smith
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. -- Lemony Snicket
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. -- Lemony Snicket
Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke." Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?" "Not particularly." "Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet. -- Julia Quinn
Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes. -- Tae Yun Kim
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You see, I know you, Violet. You've tormented me in my dreams with your body too many times to count. Now you're here in the flesh, with your ripe curves and innocent eyes, an angel hidden in the body of a temptress. -- Rose Wynters
Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history. -- Lemony Snicket
And pray, who are you?" Said the Violet blue To the Bee, with surprise, At his wonderful size, In her eyeglass of dew. "I, madam," quoth he, "Am a publican Bee, Collecting the tax Of honey and wax. Have you nothing for me? -- John B. Tabb
The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower. -- Alice Morse Earle
Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down! -- Alane Ferguson
If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said -- Daniel Handler
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it. -- Daniel Handler
I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet. -- Keke Palmer
What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar. -- Dorothea Dix
People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood. -- Imelda May
I always have at least four different lip products in my purse - I'm obsessed! I'm into L'Oreal Infallible Le Rouge 'Unending Kiss.' It's a very soft and natural pink color. I've also discovered Burt's Bees tinted lip balm in 'sweet violet.' I like it because it's very natural and feels good on my lips. -- Edy Ganem
The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, -- Jose Lezama Lima
If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet. -- Elizabeth Taylor
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet. -- Francis Bacon
I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. -- William Shakespeare
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? -- Herman Melville
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue. -- Don McLean
And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. -- Edward Abbey
The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves. -- Fredrika Bremer
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. -- John Milton
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. -- William Shakespeare
Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. -- Sven Nykvist
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. -- Friedrich Schiller
If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet. -- Dizzy Dean
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
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. -- Margaret Deland
O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet. -- Alice Meynell
O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies. -- Hilda Doolittle
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. -- Johannes Bobrowski
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. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic. -- Rebecca Wells
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! -- Henry Ward Beecher
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. -- William Shakespeare
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
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
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. -- Joaquin Sorolla
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! -- Christina Rossetti
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good. -- Lauren Oliver
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you? -- Pablo Neruda
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. -- T. S. Eliot
Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. -- Ellen Bass
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound. -- Lydia Millet
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love? -- Bill Vaughan

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