
“ROSES ARE RED. VIOLETS ARE BLUE, I'M A SCHIZOPHRENIC AND so AM I”
He Made the saying popular on a T-Shirt he wore.
"Now Some Comic Relief" (1989)
The Violet
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“ROSES ARE RED. VIOLETS ARE BLUE, I'M A SCHIZOPHRENIC AND so AM I”
He Made the saying popular on a T-Shirt he wore.
"Now Some Comic Relief" (1989)
“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”
Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. VIII of X
"The Garland", from Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches.
Roland's Tower
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.”
Variant: Roses are red
Violets are blue
Be very afraid
We're coming for you.
Source: The Queen of Zombie Hearts
“I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.”
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
As quoted in Earth's Aura (1977) by Louise B. Young
Context: What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.
Quote in Kandinsky's letter to Gabriele Münter, 1915; as cited in Schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter, by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), 2003, p. 16 note 54
1910 - 1915
The Violet from The Literary Souvenir, 1831
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)