Lavender Quotes

• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Smell, Giving

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• The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, Air, Rose

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• It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

  Paula McLain

  Space, Magic, World

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.361, Ballantine Books

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• Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

  Alice Walker

  Purple, Feminist, Literature

  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens epigraph (1983)

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• it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Strong, White

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Flower, Hands, Water

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• As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

  Michael Moore

  Bird, Love Bird

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• Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

  William Shakespeare

  Vegetables, Hot, Herbs

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 103

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• Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.

  Nicki Minaj

  Wearing Pink, Venture, Wanted

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• When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

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• When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

  Shel Silverstein

  Life, Light, Blue

  "A Light in the Attic". Book by Shel Silverstein, 1981.

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• Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

  Mia Kirshner

  Sunset, Artist, Sky

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• But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Girl, Lying, Home

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Lonely, Thinking, Artist

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• There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

  Alice Hoffman

  Falling In Love, Garden, Rose

  Alice Hoffman (1996). “Practical magic”, Berkley

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• Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7584, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Sleep, Oil, Essentials

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• If you had to choose an oil...it would have to be lavender essential oil, because it is antibacterial and antiviral. So, it's great to have when people around you are sick; it can also be used to relax.

  Karen Rose

  Oil, People, Sick

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Favour, Cupboards

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339

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• Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

  J. K. Rowling

  Funny Harry Potter, Looks, Weasley

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• It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.

  Anna Godbersen

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dog, Baby, Lying

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin

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• My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Names, Purple, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

  Judy Grahn

  Color, Secret, Culture

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• Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.

  Robert Tisserand

  Powerful, Healing, Oil

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