Color Dark Violet

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

    “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)