Vermillion Lake

Famous quotes containing the words vermillion and/or lake:

“Near vermillion one gets stained red; near ink one gets stained black.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)