Red

Red

Red is the color of blood, a ruby, and strawberries. It is next to orange at the end of the visible spectrum of light, and is commonly associated with danger, sacrifice, passion, fire, beauty, blood, anger, socialism and communism, and in China and many other cultures, with happiness.

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Famous quotes containing the word red:

    “the anchor weeps
    Its red rust downward,”
    —Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

    “The dancers crowded about him
    And many a sweet thing said,
    And a young man brought him red wine
    And a young girl white bread.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    ““With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophat”Ma token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)