Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

Edmund Spenser

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Juvenal

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Bill Watterson

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Alexei Navalny

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

Barbara Bush

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

Beatrice Lillie

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

Deb Caletti

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

William A. Ward

Vow to be valiant;Resolve to be radiant;Determine to be dynamic;Strive to be sincere;Aspire to be attuned.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Vows begin when hope dies.

George Sand

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Rivers Cuomo

It's been two and a-half years now, actually. The vow is over, but I wanted to keep cruising.

Tom Walker

You see it in their faces. He'll be back they say of someone who has vowed to reform.

George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Moliere

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.