Scarlet Quotes
103 Scarlet quotes by 85 unique authors
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The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one…
— Bliss Carman
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If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go…
— Dave Foley
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
— Bayard Taylor
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A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
— Peter De Vries
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As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness…
— Henry Adams
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The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the…
— Hugh Hefner
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs,…
— Lord Dunsany
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To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush,…
— Sara Shepard
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Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp…
— E E Cummings
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It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet…
— John Steinbeck
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It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a…
— Neil Gaiman
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...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be…
— Aldous Huxley
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This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?” called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. “Above such brutality, are you?” “We both know that there are…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after…
— William Butler Yeats
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Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.
— P. C. Cast
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers…
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Scarlet Quotes
85 authors contributed a total of 103 Scarlet Quotes, led by these top contributors: