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)

    “O conspiracy,
    Sham’st thou to show thy dang’rous brow by night,
    When evils are most free? O then, by day
    Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
    To mask thy monstrous visage?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A violet in the youth of primy nature,
    Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)