Red Dragons

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or dragons:

    “The sable presbyters approach
    The avenue of penitence;
    The young are red and pustular
    Clutching piaculative pence.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resemble each other. Both are neurotic scoundrels, yet there is a green lane in Paradise where Humbert is permitted to wander at dusk once a year; but Hell shall never parole Hermann.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)