Red Banner Orders

Famous quotes containing the words red, banner and/or orders:

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

    “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
    Long has it waved on high,
    And many an eye has danced to see
    That banner in the sky;”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “He was thoughtful and grave—but the orders he gave
    Were enough to bewilder a crew.
    When he cried “Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!”
    What on earth was the helmsman to do?”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)