Color Dark Violet

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

    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)

    “My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
    With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!”
    —Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808–1877)

    “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
    Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
    With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
    There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
    Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)