Purple Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old purple quotes, purple sayings, and purple proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Mine the long night, the secret place where lovers meet. In long embrace in purple dark, in silvered kiss forget the world and grasp your bliss. A. S. Byatt
Expression is the dress of thought, and still appears more decent as more suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, is like a clown in regal purple dressed. Alexander Pope
And or the hills, and far away beyond their utmost purple rim, beyond the night, across the day. Through all the world she followed him. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oh, grown ups cannot understand, and grown ups never will, how shorts the way to fairyland Across the purple hill. Alfred Noyes
The sky is already purple. The first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. Alice Hoffman
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. Alice Walker
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill, it was like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. Bill Watterson
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood touch of manner, hint of mood. And my heart is like a rhyme, with the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. Bliss Carman
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. Carl Sandburg
Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs. Cassandra Clare
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. Charles Dickens
I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier. Donald Trump
Dreams are the subtle dower that make us rich an hour. Then fling us poor out of the purple door. Into the precinct raw possessed before. Emily Dickinson
Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried. Eudora Welty
Night is a curious child, wandering between earth and sky, creeping in windows and doors, daubing the entire neighborhood with purple paint. Frank Marshall Davis
Know he lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of goldenrod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit. Helen Hunt
Soon it got dusk, a grape dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. Jack Kerouac
One naked star has waded through the purple shallows of the night, and faltering as falls the dew it drips its misty light. James Whitcomb Riley
Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You've got me blowing, blowing my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time? Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things just don't seem the same. Acting funny but I don't know why. Excuse me while I kiss the sky. Jimi Hendrix
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things. John Green
O, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain! Katharine Lee Bates
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh. Marge Piercy
He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Rudyard Kipling
Try to find beauty in the little things. unknown
This great purple butterfly, in the prison of my hands, has a learning in his eye not a poor fool understands. William Butler Yeats
Flower of this purple dye, hit with Cupid's archery, sink in apple of his eye. William Shakespeare
Everything changes when a man becomes purple. Charlie McDonnell
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. Regina Brett