Quotations About / On: RED

  • 41.
    The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
    (Charles Lamb (1775-1834), British essayist, critic. "Oxford in the Vacation," Essays of Elia (1820-1823).)
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  • 42.
    A fiery red dragon
    They spied on the grass;
    The lady wept sorely,
    (Unknown. This Is the Key (l. 34-36). . . Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    Oh Angel of the blizzard and blackout, Madam white face,
    take me back to that red mouth, that July 21st place.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts.")
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  • 44.
    "He neither shall be christened
    In white wine or red,
    But with fair spring water,
    With which we were christenèd."
    (Unknown. As Joseph Was a-Walking (l. 17-20). . . Our Holidays in Poetry. Mildred P. Harrington and Josephine H. Thomas, comps. (1929) The H. W. Wilson Company.)
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  • 45.
    Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
    (Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Quoted in The Reader's Digest (Pleasantville, New York, February, 1978).)
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  • 46.
    Things that we do
    'Neath the Red, White and Blue,
    Though they can't be called happy or glorious,
    Certainly keep us notorious.
    (Noël Coward (1899-1973), British playwright, actor, composer. Bright Young People, Collected Sketches and Lyrics (1931).)
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  • 47.
    He said,
    consider the flower of the field;
    did he specify
    blue or red?
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Magician [Master]....")
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  • 48.
    The man red-faced and tall
    Will cast no shadow
    From the province of the drowned.
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Message from Abroad.")
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  • 49.
    Some would find fault with the morning red, if they ever got up early enough.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 358, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 50.
    A blond in a red dress can do without introductions—but not without a bodyguard.
    (Rona Jaffe (b. 1932), U.S. novelist. Quoted in Katharine Whitehorn, "Bottled in Blonde," Roundabout (1962).)
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