Red Letter

Red letter is an English language idiom that may refer to:

  • A red letter day, an important occasion, festival, or anniversary
  • A red letter edition, usually of the Bible, with portions of the text written in red ink

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or letter:

    “If you don’t begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you are a red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)