Purple Quotes: 100 Short Sayings for Love and Laughter

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Here’s a collection of over 100 quotes about purple: short, funny, inspirational, aesthetic, and more!

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Short Purple Quotes

When you want to speak the language of purple in a few words, these short quotes are purple! I mean, perfect 🙂

Purple does something strange to me.
~ Charles Bukowski

Purple can be both luxurious and modest.
~ Shilpaahuja

Everything changes when a man becomes purple.
~ Charlie McDonnell

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
~ Epictetus

I think purple is a great color.
~ Baron Davis

I’m a purple girl!
~ Justine Skye

Work hard, play hard, and wear purple!
~ Unknown

Funny Purple Quotes

Purple can be many things: regal, dignified, powerful.

Why not funny, too?

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
~ Rick Riordan

I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple.
~ Bill Watterson

Practice makes purple.
~ Unknown

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet, and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top.
~ Andrea Barber

You’re purple in every way.
~ Unknown

Keep calm and wear purple!
~ Unknown

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

Not to be purple, but I’ve never been a ‘bad boy’ kind of girl. I like manners.
~ Toks Olagundoye

When you’re done here, check out these funny one liners.

Inspirational Purple Quotes

Inspire and motivate with purple!

The key to success is to find a way to stand out – to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
~ Seth Godin

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

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
~ Herman Melville

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

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.
~ Mae Jemison

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

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
~ Rudyard Kipling

Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
~ Ralph Ellison

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Aesthetic Purple Quotes

Purple is pretty! Enjoy the aesthetics of purple with these quotes.

Purple is the color of royalties. It stands for luxury, wealth, and sophistication. It is also the color of passion, romance, and sensitivity.
~ Amira

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.
~ Leatrice Eiseman

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

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
~ Charles Dickens

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

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

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Purple Hair Quotes

Who, me, purple hair?

You bet – but just a streak.

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

I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blonde hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.
~ Pepa

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.
~ Kesha

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

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
~ Vivienne Westwood

We’ve also got pink hair quotes.

Purple Quotes on Makeup and Beauty

There just isn’t enough purple makeup in the world!

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.
~ Sarah Hyland

If I’m feeling tired, I just say, I’m going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!
~ Emma Watson

In the CoverGirl 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

I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80’s just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.
~ Madonna Ciccone

I love funky shoes and hats. I’m into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.
~ Kim Kardashian

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Purple Quotes About Love

If your love is purple, it means you have spiritual depth, or high status!

These purple love quotes say it best.

Her love was like lavender, delicate and melancholy.
~ Laura Chouette

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

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 eye.
~ V.C. Andrews

Flower of this purple dye,
Hit with Cupid’s archery,
Sink in the apple of his eye.
~ William Shakespeare

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

Purple is the last of the rainbow colors, so it means I will love and trust u for a long time
~ Kim Taehyung

Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I’ve ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple – she had purple lipstick on.
~ Niall Horan

I think The Color Purple is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
~ Alice Walker

Here’s an inspiring collection of quotes to love yourself.

Purple Quotes About Life

A purple life is a good life!

Well, I love purple 😉 It’s my favorite color. What’s yours?

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
~ Alice Walker

When I am old, I shall wear purple.
~ Jenny Joseph

Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
~ Regina Brett

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon — a biblical one.
~ Peter Furler

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
~ Alfred Noyes

Purple allows you to be elegant and appear strong.
~ Shilpaahuja

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

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

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

Any color can make you look fashionable. But purple also shows you’re exquisite.
~ shilpaahuja

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

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

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

Some people are Red voters and some people are Blue voters, but I am a Purple voter because I can see good and bad in the policies of both and vote accordingly.
~ C.A.A. Savastano

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Favorite Color Purple Quotes

For all those who love the color purple.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
~ James Whistler

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

I want to be pure in heart — but I like to wear my purple dress.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.
~ Simone Giertz

Many gorgeous women have their go-to color, but no one can deny the power of purple.
~ Shilpaahuja

Purple’s my favorite color.
~ Danielle Panabaker

I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no-brainer for me to go to LSU.
~ Eric Reid

I think purple is the only color that suits me most.
~ Onew

I love purple because my name is Amethyst.
~ Iggy Azalea

My favorite color right now is purple, but it used to be pink. It’s kind of always going to be pink.
~ Kristinia DeBarge

My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.
~ Meredith Brooks

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Purple Sky Quotes

Don’t you love when the sky turns shades of purple?

Celebrate the beauty with these quotes.

The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.
~ Mike Bond

When I write after dark, observed Cyril Connolly, the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
~ Anne Fadiman

There’s midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
~ William Butler Yeats

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

Time is purple just before night.
~ Mary O’Neill

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.
~ J. K. Rowling

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
~ Carl Sandburg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Statement Quotes about Purple

Quotes about the power of purple!

If you want to make a statement, wear purple.
~ Baron Davis

Black is not as good as purple.
~ Ralph Lauren

I see music in colours. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or red – but I hate music that’s green, yellow or brown.
~ Charli XCX

Deep Purple is a….good band and we’ve made a niche in rock ‘n’ roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
~ Jon Lord

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
~ Whoopi Goldberg

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

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.
~ Anita Desai

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

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
~ Tommy Bolin

I don’t have a purple problem, I have a purple passion!
~ Jackie Harmon Sweeney

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

When I’m a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they’ll believe me because they weren’t listening to me.
~ Kylie Bax

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

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
~ Yul Vazquez

I wouldn’t have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
~ Steven Spielberg

Purple Nature Quotes

Beautiful nature, with so many colors. But the best is purple!

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
~ Alice Walker

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

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

Rachael could see the lavender fields from where they sat at the kitchen table. 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

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

There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.
~ Sam Walter Foss

O, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain!
~ Katharine Lee Bates

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