Quotes About Mauve

#1. Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve.

Tony Kushner

#2. They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter.

Laura Gentile

#3. And before he knew what he was doing, he reached out and with a thumb brushed away one teardrop glistening in that mauve crescent beneath her eyes.
And then he looked down at his thumb, and rubbed the tear out of existence, right into his skin.

Julie Anne Long

#4. the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn't bear to end the day. It was teetering on the horizon, throwing ribbons of pink and mauve across the sky like life ropes, and the air was sweet with jasmine.

Kate Morton

#5. Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

James Whistler

#6. Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

Oscar Wilde

#7. You understand that Mauve and turquois are not food items, but that they're colors.

Chad Eastham

#8. We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.

Margaret Atwood

#9. 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

#10. Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

Katie McGarry

#11. And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. Outside the door, a teller with a blue rosette chomps on an apple and asks for my number. She smiles a thank you and reveals a ghastly, gaping tunnel of masticated apple, edge with violent mauve lipstick seemingly applied by Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.

Maddie Grigg

#13. Never trust a woman who wears mauve.

Oscar Wilde

#14. In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

Forrest Gander

#15. Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath of subconsciousness, labyrinth of desires.

Laura Gentile

#16. I am thinking of a sky filled with spaceships, so many of them that they seem like a plague of locusts, silver against the luminous mauve of the night.

Neil Gaiman

#17. The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. Thank you, Facebook Quizzes, for helping me identify my Disney princess spirit, my old-person name, my mental disorder, and the color of my soul. All in one evening. Best, Ariel Harriet Schizophrenic Mauve.

Jen Hatmaker

#19. In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

Sherman Alexie

#20. The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#21. But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

James Joyce

#22. In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

John Lahr

#23. The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#24. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

Dolores Huerta

#25. Among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Barbara Hepworth

#27. Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

David Bronstein

#28. The pumpkin itself is a symbol for mortality.

Seth Adam Smith

#29. Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

Aldous Huxley

#30. I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

Simone De Beauvoir

#31. She's braver than she needs to be," he continued. "Maybe, just maybe, she could be the one.

Debra Anastasia

#32. She does not flinch from the caress, because she feels very strong. She walks everywhere she goes but is never tired.

Anna Keesey

#33. I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.

John Darnielle

#34. When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment - which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.

Aspen Matis

#35. Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

Alan Hirsch