Color Dark Violet

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

    “For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “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)

    “A violet by a mossy stone
    Half hidden from the eye!
    Fair as a star, when only one
    Is shining in the sky.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)