28 Amazing Literary Quotes Using The Color Blue

Did you know the most popular color in the world is blue? Here are some amazing literary quotes using the color blue.

1. “Blue does not go with everything,” Will told her. “It does not go with red, for instance.”
“I have a red and blue striped waistcoat,” Henry interjected, reaching for the peas.
“And if that isn’t proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don’t know what is.”

— Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

2. “I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.”

– Oscar Wilde

3. “We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I was the blue and she was the disinterested yellow.”

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo Love Quotes for the Ages.

4. “… paint in blue and black…sometimes gray – the colors of night – occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet …”

— John Geddes (A Familiar Rain)

5. “It’s a bird of some sort. It’s like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors.”
The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.”

— L. Frank Baum The Magic of Oz

6. “Elodin pointed down the street. “What color is that boy’s shirt? “Blue.”
“What do you mean by blue? Describe it.”
I struggled for a moment, failed. “So blue is a name?”
It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”

— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

7. “The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was…”Beautiful.” Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly artist had crushed
sapphires into his paints and then colored in the irises with the finest of brushes.”

— Nalini Singh Angels’ Blood (Guild Hunter, #1)

8. “Obsessive compulsive” Nikolaus mumble in amusement.
“I would rather eat a grenade than make a line with two different colors!” Remy responded in a pained voice as he pointed at the pad of paper.
Thiago snickered as he continued to torment the Cajun with his blue pen.
Speaking of grenades, though… Brandt had a timing device around here somewhere. What had he done with it?”

— Abigail Roux (The Archer)

9. “Colter was so particular about the colors she used in decorating that she sometimes mixed her own. For the interior of Bright Angel Lodge
she made a special shade of blue, and she was so insistent that the painters mix the shade exactly as she wanted it that they dubbed it “Mary Jane Blue.”

— Virginia L. Grattan (Mary Colter: Builder upon the Red Earth)

10. “You look so beautiful in that gown… didn’t you once tell me that blue was McKenna’s favorite color?”
“I don’t remember.”
It had indeed been blue. Tonight Aline had not been able to prevent herself from reaching for a silk gown the color of Russian lapis.
It was a simple gown with no flounces or overskirt, just a demi-train in the back and a low, square-cut bodice. A string of pearls was wrapped
twice around her throat, with the lower loop hanging almost to her waist. Another strand had been artfully entwined in her pinned-up curls.
“You’re a goddess,” her sister proclaimed cheerfully, raising her wineglass in tribute. “Good luck, dear. Because once McKenna sees you in that gown,
I predict that you’ll have a difficult time keeping him at bay.”

— Lisa Kleypas Again the Magic

11. “Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours.
A man once spent his entire life searching for a particular shade of blue that he remembered encountering in childhood.
He began to despair of ever finding it, thinking he must have imagined that precise shade, that it could not possibly exist in nature.
Then one day he chanced upon it. It was the colour of a beetle in a museum of natural history. He wept for joy.’

– “Zima Blue” by Alastair Reynolds”

12. “Do you like the color green on her, Cam?” Brit asked.
Cam turned to me, his blue eyes as deep as the waters off the coast of Texas. “The color looks great on her, but she looks beautiful everyday.”

— J. Lynn – Wait for You

13. “But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.”

-Anne Rice

14. “It took me three weeks to write the ‘Rhapsody in Blue.’ I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.”

– George Gershwin

15. “Put down the Technicolor ones. No freaking way.”
“But blue‘s my favorite color,” I say, batting my eyelashes at him. “Put them down.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick (My Life Next Door)

16. “Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.”

– Desmond Tutu

17. “I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.”

– Elvis Presley

18. “Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy – and it made me feel something. T
hat’s when I realized music was inside me.”

– Alicia Keys

19. “I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it’s maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue,
blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.”

-Baz Luhrmann

20. “I sell blue sky and coloured air.”

-James Turrell

21. “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were
no longer even remotely human.”

-William Gibson

22. “The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural…
The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.”

-Wassily Kandinsky

23. “Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic – as if from the land of fables.

They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!”

-Joanna Lumley

24. “Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all
kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.”

-Elsa Schiaparelli

25. “You will find my last words in the blue folder.”

-Max Beerbohm

26. “I love the ocean. I’ve always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.”

-Siouxsie Sioux

27. “I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late ’60s. It’s kind of a wild and wily kind of format.
They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word ‘blue‘ in them, or whatever they wanted to do.”

-Roger McGuinn

28. “I love life. There’s so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.”

-Pattie Boyd