Color Dark Violet

Famous quotes containing the words color, dark and/or violet:

    “‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
    Taught my benighted soul to understand
    That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
    Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
    Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
    “Their color is a diabolic die.”
    Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
    May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
    —Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)

    “In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
    Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
    The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
    Her stove, and lays out food in tins.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)