Color Dark Violet

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

    “Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
    Again again with its pointless sound
    When the moon finds them they are the color of everything”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    “While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “I think the King is but a man, as I am. The violet smells to
    him as it doth to me.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)