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:

    “Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “Her breasts under her gown
    are cold,
    for a flower has grown,
    murex-red
    on the red gown.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Only, here and there, an old sailor,
    Drunk and asleep in his boots,
    Catches tigers
    In red weather.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)