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Purple Quotes - Page 10

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

"Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)". Poem by Horace (line 14), circa 18 BC.

Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.