1. "Never trust a woman who wears mauve."
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. "You understand that Mauve and turquois are not food items, but that they're colors."
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Quote by Chad Eastham
3. "Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve."
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Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
4. "But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines."
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James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
5. "Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons."
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. "We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women."
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Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
7. "Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It always means that they have a history."
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
8. "Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It always means that they have a history. There"
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Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
9. "Music. A flower in a vase on the tray. A January rose, it wouldn't last long, all big and full-blown like that. He loved things like this, fragile, that wouldn't last. She touched its silver-mauve petals, a hundred layers like an old-fashioned petticoat. The Japanese would say that's their elegance, the brevity of their beauty."
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Janet Fitch, Paint it Black
10. "I looked at this first sheet, words scribbled confidently on a lined pad. My attempt at making contact the spirit of Llandor. Disaster. I couldn’t do the language or locate the period. The pad of paper, with its grey-mauve rules, was all wrong. It was intended for meaningful work, figures, calculations, notes."
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Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower