Red Crescent Society

Famous quotes containing the words red, crescent and/or society:

    “The red of her lower lip
    kissed off by her lover at night
    can be seen at dawn,
    reflected in the eyes
    of other wives.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “On me your voice falls as they say love should,
    Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City
    Is where your speech alone is understood.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)