Color Purple

Famous quotes containing the words color and/or purple:

    “To face the garment of rebellion
    With some fine color that may please the eye
    Of fickle changelings and poor discontents.
    Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
    Of hurly-burly innovation.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Now I am powerless
    to draw back
    for the sea is cyclamen-purple,
    cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes,
    colour of the purple of the flowers,
    cyclamen-coloured and dark.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)