Scarlet Quotes - Page 4

• When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hate, Teeth, Ashes

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
  Of bugles going by.
  And my lonely spirit thrills
  To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

  Bliss Carman

  Lonely, Autumn, Asters

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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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 vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Eggplant

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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 the courses of wayback creeks; scarlet - and - green sky - streaking parrot - fires with parrot shrieks echo - shattering the shoulders of the hills; and desert - sunset - rage Rage for my mind, be clamant, do not cease you are my holiest habitat of peace.

  Rex Ingamells

  Beauty, Struggle, Sunset

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• I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Father, Book

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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 ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cities, Clothes

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• I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.

  Toni Braxton

  People, Letters, Way

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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. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

  Kieron Gillen

  Self, Long, Serious

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• Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

  Christian Dior

  Cheerful, Red, Pillars

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• Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

  Denise Levertov

  Who I Am, Tree, Tears

  Denise Levertov (1979). “Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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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

  Years, Letters, Today

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.150, University of Chicago Press

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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 or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success.

  Henry Adams

  Character, Mean, Boys

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

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• Such beautiful scarlet hair....Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it!" -Jellal Fernandes

  Hiro Mashima

  Beautiful, Hair, Color

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• But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.

  Marissa Meyer

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• If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Letters, Bosoms, Ifs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.100

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• But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.

  Marissa Meyer

  Strong, Grandmother, Thinking

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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

  Competition, Judas, Disciple

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• Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

  George R. R. Martin

  Gold, Fantasy Books, Tofu

  George R.R. Martin (2008). “Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective”, p.215, Hachette UK

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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 we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.

  Washington Irving

  Autumn, Sky, Ideas

  Washington Irving (1967). “Rip Van Winkle: The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales”, Putnam Publishing Group

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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 me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

  Pierre Loti

  Memories, Eight, Years

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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 the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze

  Pablo Neruda

  Beauty, Yellow, Orange

  Pablo Neruda (1997). “Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda”, HarperCollins

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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

  Grief, Sunny Weather, Sorrow

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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 multitude
  Of golden chalices to humming-birds
  And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, June, Air

  "The Fountain". Poem by William C. Bryant, 1839.

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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, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Wall, Black, Capes

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