Red Quotes

2774 Red quotes by 1890 unique authors

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the… — William Shakespeare
Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn. — Thomas Hood
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. — Thomas Hood
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. — John Dryden
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red...… — Edvard Munch
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time… — Edvard Munch
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright… — Francis Scott Key
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh
O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine! — Helen Hunt Jackson
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida!… — Henry Austin Dobson
After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American… — Anne Sexton
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale… — Philip James Bailey
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you… — Anna Quindlen
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for… — Vincent Van Gogh
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre… — Vincent Van Gogh
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin
If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love… — Stephen Sondheim
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the… — George Crabbe
White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the… — Dogen
The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other… — Robert Motherwell
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news… — John Clare
One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times… — Francis Picabia
The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent… — Joshua Reynolds

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