Violet Delights Quotes

Lari got herself cleaned up from rooter to tooter ~ Mariah Violet

The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment. ~ Violet Winspear

Raising readers, one book at a time ~ Violet Favero

I am leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we will meet again." Sir Richard

"Do you promise?" Dowager Countess Violet ~ Dowager Countess Violet Grantham

My passionate puritan! ~ Violet Winspear

Desire comes easy to a man, but it soon flickers out if love doesn't light the flame. ~ Violet Winspear

Can it be that distance makes the heart feel fonder, and scatters roses where nettles really grow? ~ Violet Winspear

Outerspace is no place for a person of breeding. ~ Violet Bonham Carter

No family is ever what it seems from the outside. ~ Lady Violet

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere. ~ Lady Violet

I love you with all my bruised heart. ~ Violet Trefusis

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights. ~ Robin Wright

I wasn't the kind of girl who liked to wait around to be rescued. ~ Violet Cross

Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."
I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn. ~ Violet Cross

The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan). ~ Dada Bhagwan

Love and infatuation are like time and tide. One is forever, the other comes and goes. ~ Violet Winspear

In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation. ~ Violet Kupersmith

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party. ~ Lady Violet

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next ~ Gautama Buddha

His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card. ~ Violet Trefusis

Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them. ~ Violet Haberdasher

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most? ~ Pietro Aretino

You're more like dun-dun-na-NAH Romantic Man whose superpower is hopeless romanticism. Your bat signal would be a big red heart over Gotham. ~ Violet Duke

For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins. ~ Violet Haberdasher

That queen of secrecy, the violet. ~ John Keats

The diarist [Anthony Powell] has never adhered to the tedious practice of reading only one book at a time ~ Lady Violet Powell

He was slowly starting to recover. I could tell by the eye roll and sigh.
Oh, so only he could be a comedian? ~ Violet Cross

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. ~ Henry James

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above. ~ Heinrich Heine

Violet, the Dowager Countess: 'I have plenty of friends I don't like. ~ Jessica Fellowes

But once Violet saw the inheret sadness in one thing, she couldn't stop. ~ Maria Semple

At the kernel of every promise, there is always a little doubt, like a fragment of shell that clings to the broken nut. ~ Violet Winspear

Very lovely indeed
- Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her. ~ Lemony Snicket

The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing. ~ Violet Cross

Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise. ~ Violet Trefusis

As you say, I can feel it and I can smell it, but for me it's still a black rose. ~ Violet Winspear

What?" I asked, the word coming out much softer than I'd intended. Not quite a whisper, but close.
"Nothing. Just glad we ended up here, all of us, together. ~ Violet Cross

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination. ~ Violet Trefusis

Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze. ~ Ebenezer Elliott

I wasn't one to judge others when it came to fashion choices, but even I knew he'd drawn the short straw in the apocalyptic wardrobe department. ~ Violet Cross

I love you, because I have seen your soul. ~ Violet Trefusis

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.) ~ Candida Martinelli

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation. ~ Dick Van Dyke

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test. ~ Lady Violet

It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light. ~ Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Never again could she give herself to any man as she had given herself to her husband; completely, as though the world might end before morning came. ~ Violet Winspear

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class. ~ Lady Violet

Violet, Kevin, the crowd, and my annoying father would all just have to wait while I ate half that torte and drank half that coffee.
Violet, however, was a multitasker. ~ Devon Monk

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with. ~ Violet Duke

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ~ William Blake

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. ~ William Shakespeare

Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break? ~ Violet Cross

A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world. ~ Violet James

Well, fella, as much as I'd like to stick something up your ass, it ain't gonna be my finger or anything else on my body - sorry to disappoint. ~ A. Violet End

Why Judge someone? What gives YOU the right? We are all humans and we all have stories. Don't be critical on people ... For how would you like it if they said that about you? ~ Violet Lillydale

...Pigpen's currently sitting on as he drinks a beer.
He's been Violet's shadow since Eli left town with Cyrus a few days ago. ~ Katie McGarry

Thanks for giving me a place to sleep last night,
and for the extra blanket.
Vi.
-Violet's note to Lincoln ~ Jessica Shirvington

Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances. ~ Jennifer Niven

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel. ~ Lady Violet

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years? ~ James Russell Lowell

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. ~ Francois De Malherbe

You going to let me go now?"
"That depends." He muttered. "Are you going to try and nosedive down the stairs again?"
"Wasn't planning on it, but who knows how this might play out. ~ Violet Cross

Kate! Get some ice on that ankle or it's going to swell to the size of Luke's head. Then neither of you will be able to get through the front door. ~ Violet Cross

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words. ~ Violet Duke

I feel like there's a knife lodged in my chest and every day that I see you, that I can't touch you, somebody turns it a full rotation. I'm bleeding from the inside out, Abi. ~ Violet Blaze

Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults. ~ Lemony Snicket

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ... ~ Violet Trefusis

If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by. ~ Jessica Shirvington

Now that she is gone, I suppose there is no one left to care about it. " "That's not true Camille. I care." The woman looked at her with wonder in her eyes. ~ Sara Elaine Violet

She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.) ~ Candida Martinelli

She hadn't been scared for herself, she'd been frightened for me.
Good. Her A-class horror movie scream earlier had nearly put me in an early grave. When this was over, I could call us even. ~ Violet Cross

Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it? ~ Violet Weingarten

What is green? The grass is green,
With small flowers between.
What is violet? Clouds are violet
In the summer twilight.
What is orange? Why, an orange,
Just an orange! ~ Christina Rossetti

I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you. ~ Jessica Shirvington

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. ~ Edward Abbey

I caught sight of a small twitch on Plumber's face, like he was battling the urge not to frown.
Well Plumber, if you didn't want your bitch making noise, you should have put a muzzle on her. ~ Violet Cross

Henry watched her go. And then he looked down at the sword he was carrying. When it came to weapons, he thought sadly, sometimes words could be just as hurtful, and just as forbidden. ~ Violet Haberdasher

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference. ~ Violet Trefusis

Experience could not be acquired from the innocent, and in a way it is a schooling for the innocence we eventually acquire in a wife. If you have not known the devil you can never appreciate an angel. ~ Violet Winspear

You dare glamour me? he growled, his violet eyes burning as they bore into my own. Lucien just pressed me harder into the wall. ~ Sarah J. Maas

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called. ~ Dorothea Dix

That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance. ~ Violet Cross

Vanessa was pondering the Spanish insistence on love. Did the Latin male consider it was all women were born for, to feel and give love; to devote all their life and energy to it? ~ Violet Winspear

Instead I watched Layla as she bolted over the battered desk, heading for the door Charlotte and Kate had just disappeared through. Good girl.
The thought screeched to a halt as I watched her run straight past it. ~ Violet Cross

Don't be cute." Luke murmured, amusement lacing his tone. He moved forward, leaning against the slice of wall at the other end of the floor to ceiling window.
"I promise you, I wouldn't even know where to start. ~ Violet Cross

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not the sweet violet - you know, that early dark violet that smells of melting snow and spring grass. ~ Leo Tolstoy

I don't like your tone, was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument. ~ Julia Quinn

Yeah," Violet says from where she's stooped on the floor. "But those weren't family tears." Whitney rakes her fingers through Hadley's hair. "What were they, then." "Those were boy tears," Violet says with a smile. ~ Jennifer E. Smith

Violet: "Are you guilting me into coming?" I glare over the rim of my mug.
Mom: "Not at all. I'm just throwing out hypotesticals."
Violet: "I cough-choke. "Do you mean hypotheticals?"
Mom: "That's what I said. ~ Helena Hunting

If these were Plumber's people, that would mean he knew we were coming. That we'd lost our element of surprise and we were walking into a trap.
Which, you know, was obviously at the top of my to-do list today. ~ Violet Cross

Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights. ~ Debasish Mridha

I suppose if you take one part asshole and mix one part drugs, then stir in too much money for a man's own good, this is the kind of crazy gravy you end up with. ~ A. Violet End

If you enjoy sex or explore aspects of your sexual identity using technology, that experience should belong to you. Only you should get to decide whether it was a good or bad thing to do. ~ Violet Blue

Charlotte Stokehurst," Violet Bridgerton announced, "is getting married."
"Today?" Hyacinth queried, taking off her gloves.
Her mother gave her a look. "She has become engaged. Her mother told me this morning."
Hyacinth looked around. "Were you waiting for me in the hall?"
"To the Earl of Renton," Violet added. "Renton."
"Have we any tea?" Hyacinth asked. "I walked all the way home, and I'm thirsty."
"Renton!" Violet exclaimed, looking about ready to throw up her hands in despair. "Did you hear me?"
"Renton," Hyacinth said obligingly. "He has fat ankles."
"He's - " Violet stopped short. "Why were you looking at his ankles? ~ Julia Quinn

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome.
It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good. ~ Lauren Oliver

It's an invasion a-and I resent It.'

'A strange remark from a woman,' there was a caustic sting in his voice. 'It is my experience that your sex likes this invasion, as you call it. It is a subtle intrusion they can allow without risking their reputations. ~ Violet Winspear

My sister and I both survived the apocalypse. But that day was only the beginning of our struggles.
Three years later, and this is where I ended up, alone, bound and awaiting my surely unpleasant fate.
And man, how I wished they'd just get on with it. ~ Violet Cross

Funnier still how much faith her parents put in him, considering the fact that Jay would officially be younger than Violet in less than a week.
Violet was about to turn seventeen, while Jay would still be sixteen for nearly two full months/
Jay liked that, the whole older-woman thing. He also liked to joke about the fact that Violet would soon be dating a younger man.
One night, when Violet's parents had gone out, he teased her about it, whispering against his throat, "I should probably be dating girls my own age now that you'll be over-the-hill." Jay was stretched out on Violet's bed as she curled against him.
Violet laughed, rising to the bait. "Fine," she challenged, pulling away and leaning up on her elbow. "I'm sure there are plenty of men my own age who would be willing to finish what you've started. ~ Kimberly Derting

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose. ~ J.G. Holland