Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or violets:
“I mourn the safe and motherly old middle-class queen, who held the nation warm under the fold of her big, hideous Scotch-plaid shawl and whose duration had been so extraordinarily convenient and beneficent. I felt her death much more than I should have expected; she was a sustaining symbol—and the wild waters are upon us now.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Lay her i’th’earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)