"Its virtues, not its sins, are as scarlet" — Henry David Thoreau

More Scarlet Quotes

This quote is filed under Scarlet Quotes, one of 103 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. — Hilaire Belloc
• History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. — Eldridge Cleaver
• A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble… — Henry James
• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me.… — Unknown Author
• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I… — Doris Lessing
• All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees… — Unknown Author
• The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition. — Rowan Atkinson
• Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. — George R. R. Martin
• It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that… — Washington Irving
• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least… — Wilma Rudolph
• I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about… — Pierre Loti
• Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. — Osbert Sitwell

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