“Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said.
"Rubbish and you know it."

-Anthony to Violet”

Source: The Duke and I

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American novelist 1970

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Something Wonderful

“That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.”

Samuel Richardson book Clarissa

Vol. 1, p. 5; Preface.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

“Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke."

Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?"

"Not particularly."

"Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

“Violets! — deep-blue violets!
April's loveliest coronets!
There are no flowers grow in the vale,
Kiss'd by the dew, wooed by the gale, —
None by the dew of the twilight wet,
So sweet as the deep-blue violet!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Violet
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

Tennessee Williams Camino Real

Source: Camino Real

“If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.”

Richard Burton (1925–1984) Welsh actor

In Gene N Landrum Paranoia & Power: Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons http://books.google.com/books?id=x3uHJsk1DuwC&pg=PA225, Morgan James Publishing, 1 November 2007, p. 225

“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
“you know I love you dearly—”
“Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner?”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: It's in His Kiss

“Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Variant: Roses are red
Violets are blue
Be very afraid
We're coming for you.
Source: The Queen of Zombie Hearts