Scarlet Quotes
103 quotes by 90 authors
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
— Hilaire Belloc
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy…
— Henry James
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves,…
— Alys Fowler
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the…
— Doris Lessing
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along…
— Rex Ingamells
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.
— Rowan Atkinson
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
— George R. R. Martin
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which…
— Washington Irving
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I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life…
— Wilma Rudolph
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about…
— Pierre Loti
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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
— Osbert Sitwell
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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to…
— Pablo Neruda
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Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
— Thomas Parsons
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When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her…
— William C. Bryant
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,…
— Mao Zedong
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... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me.…
— Natalie Merchant
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Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose.…
— Kieron Gillen
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Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred…
— Archie Kalokerinos
Who Wrote These Scarlet Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 103 Scarlet Quotes, led by these top contributors: