Top Purple Quotes

And when I fall in love, I began, I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds...

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat;...

Purple Definition

(n.) A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.

(n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.

(n.) Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.

(n.) A cardinalate. See Cardinal.

(n.) Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.

(n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.

(n.) See Purpura.

(n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.

(a.) Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.

(a.) Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.

(a.) Blood-red; bloody.

(v. t.) To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first star...

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

The room was dark, though weak autumnal light filtered in through arched windows high on the walls, illuminating the room's rich aubergine brocade wallpaper. Its color cast a soft violet haze that flo...

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

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

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender background, and on the other side, fat lavender roses on a purple background. Which si...

I raised the hood of my cape and opened my umbrella. Headmistress had given it to me for my twenty-first birthday, knowing how fond I was of the purple foxglove that bloomed in the park. When open, th...

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Jane’s been captured? Lady Henrietta surged forward like the statue on the prow of a ship.She’s gone in, Jack corrected shortly. Voluntarily.And you let her? Lady Henrietta’s eyes were as wide as they...

What the soul is after is - the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul's desire. This is its purpose. The soul is after the feeling. Not the knowledge, but the feeling. It already h...