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)

    “... a full notecase,
    Dull Bodley, draught beer, and dark blue,
    And most often losing the Boat Race ...”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “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)