Scarlet

Famous quotes containing the word scarlet:

    O, Nelly Gray! O, Nelly Gray!
    Is this your love so warm?
    The love that loves a scarlet coat
    Should be more uniform!
    Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.
    John Locke (1632–1704)

    when I see the beauty of your face,
    Ye been so scarlet red about your eyen,
    It maketh all my dreade for to dyen;
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)