Purple Quotes

I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it. (Alice Walker)
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. View quote
Alice Walker
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. View quote
Bill Watterson
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. View quote
Greg Ginn
It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. View quote
George Eliot
The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding - Riding - riding - The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door. View quote
Alfred Noyes
Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 [before his trip to India, c. 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone, The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. View quote
Sara Teasdale
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove. View quote
Ralph Ellison
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. View quote
Thomas Gray
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. View quote
Jenny Joseph
You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous. I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.' View quote
Angus Young
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? View quote
Jerome
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail! Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way, And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend. View quote
William Somervile
They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk. View quote
Vitruvius
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn. (Victor Hugo)
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine. View quote
Flora Thompson
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. View quote
Lord Byron
Anger he smiles towering in shiney metallic purple armour, Queen jealousy envy waits behind him, Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. View quote
Horace