A symbol of royalty and nobility, the purple color has a timeless charm and I’ve got some lovely purple quotes that capture and embody its essence.
I’ve collected them from various online sources and I promise they’ll leave you fascinated and inspired!
10 Beautiful Purple Quotes
1. “Purple is the color of royalties. It stands for luxury, wealth, and sophistication. It is also the color of passion, romance, and sensitivity.” — Amira
2. “If you want to make a statement, wear purple.” — Baron Davis
3. “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” — Alice Walker
4. “All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it’s looking back at you.” — Uniek Swain
5. “Purple is my favorite color. It makes me think of spring and summer. A purple dress, eating grapes, lilacs — I love purple.” ― Angela Yee
6. “When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.” — Mae Jemison
7. “I want to be pure in heart — but I like to wear my purple dress.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
8. “Purple is the last of the rainbow colors, so it means I will love and trust u for a long time.” ― Kim Taehyung
9. “Everything changes when a man becomes purple.” — Charlie McDonnell
10. “Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.” — Carl Sandburg
Inspirational Quotes About Purple
1. “Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high.” — Byllye Avery
2. “Black is not as good as purple.” — Ralph Lauren
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3. “When I am old, I shall wear purple.” — Jenny Joseph
4. “It’s all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I’ll get to an extreme, I’ll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs.” — Angelina Jolie
5. “Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.” — Charles Dickens
6. “I was very against pink and purple when I was young because they were girls’ colors. But that was only because I didn’t want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.” — Danica Patrick
7. “Royalty and purple just go together. A purple dress says more than words ever could.” — Unknown
8. “If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes — the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different.” — Alber Elbaz
9. “Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.” — James Whistler
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10. “Far clouds of feathery gold. Shaded with deepest purple, gleam. Like islands on a dark blue sea.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
11. “Purple has always been my favorite color… but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren’t really allowed to wear. That’s what all the kids at school told me. I filled my wardrobe with as much purple as I could possibly find, because who cares? Life’s too short to dress by other people’s rules.” — Sasha Velour
12. “We’ve been in a war and a recession. That’s why accent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They’re optimistic and flirty and happy colors.” — David Bromstad
13. “There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood — touch of manner, hint of mood; and my heart is like a rhyme, with the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.” — Bliss Carman
14. “I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.” — Paul Dano
15. “Many gorgeous women have their go-to color, but no one can deny the power of purple.” — Unknown
16. “I see music in colors. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or red — but I hate music that’s green, yellow or brown.” — Charli XCX
17. “The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.” — James Elkins
18. “Purple, purple, purple, what color could look better than purple?” — Unknown
19. “I think purple is a great color.” — Baron Davis
20. “I have a passion for all things purple, especially when it comes to the clothes I wear!” — Unknown
21. “Under the purple sky, fulgent stars, in subdued moonlight, surrounded by blinding darkness, on dewed grass, bare feet, I’ll kiss you, I’ll kiss you, to the testimony of stars and skies. I’ll kiss you as such that love will erect from the soil, and coil around us, and our clays would become one.” — Teufel Damon
22. “In 2007, Prince performed at the halftime of the Super Bowl. The stage in Miami was wreathed in purple light, and it poured during his performance so that he played ‘Purple Rain’ in the purple rain.” — Steven Rushin
23. “We have the most beautiful planet — the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.” — Dan Aykroyd
24. “Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing, and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot, and purple grapes.” — Tae Yn Kim
25. “O, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain!” — Katharine Lee Bates
26. “I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple.” — Bill Watterson
27. “I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did ‘Purple Rain’ in the rain. He was out there with the guitar goin’. It was absolutely awesome.” — Joe Maurer
28. “Purple, wonder, majesty, and enchantment doesn’t even begin to cover the feelings that I had the first time that I met you that only grew.” ― Ottilie Weber
29. “The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.” — William John Wills
30. “Any color can make you look fashionable. But purple also shows you’re exquisite.” — Unknown
31. “I piled the cookies, their lovely violet color peeping through a light coating of powdered sugar, on a plate. I studied the offering, then added a small bowl of vanilla ice cream as well as a serving of my ube halaya, the purple—yam jam I’d used to create the cookies, to the dish. Perfect.” ― Mia P. Manansala
32. “The colors of my life. Are bountiful and bold, the purple glow of indigo, the gleam of green and gold. The splendor of the sunrise, the dazzle of a flame, the glory of a rainbow, I’d put ’em all to shame.” — Cy Coleman
33. “That powerful PURPLE hue to my fave vintage beverages is a key unlocking the transformational depth of its flavor to its berry last drinkable drop.” ― Dr. Tracey Bond
34. “Purple can be both luxurious and modest.” — Shilpa Ahuja
35. “Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.” — Carl Sandburg
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Thought-Provoking Purple Quotes
1. “Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.” — J. K. Rowling
2. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” — Alice Walker
3. “Purple does something strange to me.” — Charles Bukowski
4. “It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.” — Rick Riordan
5. “Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter’d and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.” — Joaquin Miller
6. “Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.” — Alfred Noyes
7. “My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet, and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.” — Andrea Barber
8. “The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.” ― Mike Bond
9. “I’m not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn’t born to the purple.” — Matthew Goode
10. “The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.” — Alice Hoffman
11. “When I write after dark’, observed Cyril Connlly, ‘the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.’” — Anne Fadiman
12. “Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with Burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” — Jack Kerouac
13. “Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.” — T. S. Eliot
14. “Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.” — Ralph Ellison
15. “When people tell you to walk a certain way, it’s like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can’t not do it.” — Helen Fisher
16. “He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” — Rudyard Kipling
17. “October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smooth, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.” — Jean Hersey
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18. “I don’t have a purple problem, I have a purple passion!” ― Jackie Harmon Sweeney
19. “They stretched in a purple haze over the landscape, the bright sunshine washing over them. The mauve complimented the blue-grey of the Australian bush in the far distance.” ― Ellen Read
20. “There’s midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.” — William Butler Yeats
21. “I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.” — H.G. Bissinger
22. “Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.” — Horace
23. “I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no-brainer for me to go to LSU.” — Eric Reid
24. “Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when underage, but when of age, in purple.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25. “Purple is the hue worn by a baby witch or warlock. Pink and blue are for mortals.” — Agnes Moorehead
26. “I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I’d wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.” — Carrie Ann Inaba
27. “One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett
28. “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 with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.” ― V.C. Andrews
29. “Time is purple just before night.” ― Mary O’Neill
30. “Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? — St. Jerome
31. “The light in that suburban office suite was bright but not harsh; the pale walls were incredibly clean and the carpeting, in Spence’s description, was conspicuously new and displayed the exact shade of purple found in turnips.” ― Thomas Ligotti
32. “I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.” — Bryce Dallas Howard
33. “Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I’ve ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple — she had purple lipstick on.” ― Niall Horan
34. “Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery
35. “Purple haze all in my eyes, don’t know if it’s day or night. You got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?” — Jimi Hendrix
Purple Flower Quotes
1. “Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in the apple of his eye.” — William Shakespeare
2. “Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.” — Suzy Kassem
3. “The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.” ― Anita Desai
4. “The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.” — Helen Hunt
5. “The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.” ― Frederika Bremer
6. “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
7. “He pictures her face when she opens the bag and sees it. A whole load of dark purple flowers stuck onto a tiny bendy stem like a bunch of butterflies about to fly off.” ― Ella Griffin
8. “An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love, and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.” — Leatrive Eiseman
9. “Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.” — Julia Caroline Dorr
10. “The violets were past their prime, yet their departing breath was sweeter, in the blast of death, than all the lavish fragrance of the time.” ― James Montgomery Boice
11. “The common meadow violet grows low to the ground, usually no higher than seven inches. It bears broad, heart-shaped leaves with scalloped edges on short stalks that grow from the plants base.” ― Glynda Joy Nord
12. “A belief in violets isn’t necessary for violets to exist.” ― Marty Rubin
13. “Her love was like lavender, delicate and melancholy.” ― Laura Chouette
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14. “The hardiest plant in the world is the purple saxifrage. It has delicate-looking flowers, with purple petals that seem as though they might blow away in the wind, yet it thrives in the Arctic.” ― Matt Haig
15. “Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.” ― Fran Lebowitz
16. “Growing violets is rewarding, as they demand little and give so much in return.” ― Margaret Joan Roberts
17. “I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.” — Mary McLeod Bethune
18. “Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are red, Violets are blue. Poor violet violated for a rhyme.” — Derek Jarmen
19. “The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” — Tennessee Williams
20. “When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.” — Farkas Bolyai
21. “The violet was a favorite flower in ancient Greece and became the symbol of Athens, the flower of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and also the flower of her son Priapus, the god of gardens and the male procreative power.” ― Margaret Joan Roberts
22. “Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.” ― Heinrich Heine
23. “Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.” ― D.H. Lawrence
24. “Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.” ― Eudora Welty
25. “The violets of five seasons reappear and fade, unseen by any human eye.” — William Wordsworth
See also: 130 Beautiful Short Flower Quotes To Add Colors To Your Day
Motivational Purple Quotes
1. “When you want to look like you just stepped out of a fashion magazine, a purple dress is the best choice.” — Unknown
2. “Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.” — Regina Brett
3. “Shine bright like an amethyst.” — Unknown
4. “Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things.” — Sean Lock
5. “My hair is always going to be purple; that’s kind of my thing. It doesn’t matter what length I make it, as long as it’s purple.” — Justine Skye
6. “Purple allows you to be elegant and appear strong.” — Unknown
7. “In the CoverGirl Melting Pout Matte Lipstick ads, I am wearing this gorgeous purple color called Seismic. It’s such a different shade, but it works well with my face. I’ve got hazel eyes, and so purple kind of compliments it. It’s a nice shade to put on when I’m feeling a little sassy.” ― Ayesha Curry
8. “Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.” ― Epictetus
9. “Better keep the young on lemons and lavender until they’ve reached the age of discretion.” — Henry Miller
10. “I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.” — Sarah Hyland
11. “I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country… as long as he does right by the people.” — Dizzee Rascal
12. “I’m a purple girl!” ― Justine Skye
13. “Not to be purple, but I’ve never been a ‘bad boy’ kind of girl. I like manners.” — Toks Olagundoye
14. “God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.” — Dolly Parton
15. “I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don’t have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don’t have to be a shrinking violet.” — Keke Palmer
16. “I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.” — Kobe Bryant
17. “The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.” — Bob Kerrey
18. “My favorite accessory is a pair of long purple leather gloves.” — Lucy Worsley
19. “From the political angle, I’m trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, ‘Are you a red state or blue state?’, I say, ‘I’m purple.’ I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.” — Brad Thor
20. “‘Yeah, but they’re PURPLE pants,’ Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. ‘Hence, I’m awesome.’” ― Amanda Hocking
21. “I think purple is the only color that suits me most.” — Onew
22. “I think that expression is so great. So I’ll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.” — Graham Elliot
23. “I love purple because my name is Amethyst.” — Iggy Azalea
24. “I love red or deep purple lips for events.” — Cara Delevingne
25. “When I’m with purple, I’m totally with purple; when I’m doing my thing, I’m totally doing my own thing.” — Tommy Bolin
Final Words
I hope you enjoyed reading my exploration of the beauty hidden in purple color through these inspiring purple quotes!
