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A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white. -- Clementine Paddleford
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. -- Eldridge Cleaver
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. -- Hilaire Belloc
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus. -- Peter De Vries
I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read. -- Henning Mankell
Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. -- Osbert Sitwell
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. -- Bayard Taylor
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. -- Archie Kalokerinos
Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief. -- Jade Jagger
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod. -- Bliss Carman
I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports. -- Wilma Rudolph
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made. -- William Butler Yeats
The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on. -- Emily Dickinson
If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?. -- Dave Foley
The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him. -- Charles Spurgeon
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see? -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies. -- Neil Gaiman
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success. -- Henry Adams
It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. -- Washington Irving
Well I've been calling myself Scarlet Pattinson for several weeks. Have you seen Robert Pattinson? Hottest. Man. Ever. And no, I don't care if that makes me a couger. He sings with the voice of an angel. Gods, I love when a man sings to me. You never did because your voice is terrrible." She shuddered in distaste. "I swear, its like a demon running its claws over brimsone. -- Gena Showalter
But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one. -- Marissa Meyer
Scarlet was in pain all night because she wouldn't let me sleep with her. -- Chelsea Fine
And because Scarlet loved pancakes...That's what he would do. Make pancakes and flee. -- Chelsea Fine
You remembered, he said quietly.Lowering the bow, Scarlet kept her eyes on himI remembered. -- Chelsea Fine
Scarlet gasped as Wolf buried one hand into her mess of curls and kissed her back. -- Marissa Meyer
A trained bus thrower like Gabriel, or Robin Hood wannabe like Scarlet, or a ninja assassin like Tristan -- Chelsea Fine
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition. -- Rowan Atkinson
You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet's identity and give it to Levana's army. -- Marissa Meyer
I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me. -- Toni Braxton
Gabriel looked ou at the water for a momentLove is rare.Yes Scarlet looked at the lake as wellBut always worth pursuing.Gabriel noddedAlways. -- Chelsea Fine
February-Scarlet words,Though noneThe Scarlet Letter,Entwine their way DeeperDeeperAround the fibersOf my soul.Fusing,Pulsing,Burgeoning,They absorb me,And their architect thereof. -- Larese Mendez
This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing. -- Kate Atkinson
Such beautiful scarlet hair....Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it!" -Jellal Fernandes -- Hiro Mashima
So che non dovresti voler avere niente a che fare con me. Non te ne faccio una colpa. Ma tu sei l'unica, Scarlet. Sarai sempre l'unica. -- Marissa Meyer
Cinder made a special trip to Paris for this girl?My logic aptitude suggests this is a possibility.What else do we know about this ... Scarlet? -- Marissa Meyer
I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes. -- Karen Chance
Remember, Elizabeth fell for Mr. Darcy, Beauty fell for the Beast and Scarlet fell for Rhett. Girls love a mysterious boy with a dark past. Trust me. -- Chelsea M. Cameron
He (the British soldier) is generally beloved by two sorts of Companion, in whores and lice, for both these Vermin are great admirers of a Scarlet Coat. -- Richard Holmes
I'm baaaaaaaack! Heather rushed up to Scarlet, completely unaware of GabrielI came, I kissed, I conquered. No, let's go find you a hot guy with a tasty mouth. -- Chelsea Fine
Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley, Iko saidNormally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas. -- Marissa Meyer
Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas. -- Marissa Meyer
History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie. -- Sara Sheridan
So, tell me about yourself, Scarlet. Gabriel saidI already know about your love for coffee and sleeping in - which makes you awesome, by the way - but what else? -- Chelsea Fine
I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel. -- Harold Ramis
He looked at her with his green don't-lie-to-me-woman eyes and Scarlet dropped her guilty gaze to the mahogany desktop, searching around until she found a paperweight shaped like a pyramid to stare at. -- Chelsea Fine
Amusement touched the corner of his lipsAnimals love me.Oh, I'm sure they do, Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, What farm animals don't love a wolf? -- Marissa Meyer
Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, "What farm animals don't love a wolf? -- Marissa Meyer
Your extracurricular activities are definitely somewhat lackluster, Annie.What? Being the daughter of a celebrated criminal doesn't count as an extracurricular activity?No, Scarlet saidA case could be made for poisoning your ex-boyfriend however. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter. -- Carrie Brownstein
This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight -- Jennifer Crusie
I don't think so, dude. Gabriel would kill me. And then Scarlet would kill me. And they could just keep on killing me over and over again because I don't ever die. Do you know how much that would suck? -- Chelsea Fine
What about you? Scarlet askedYou have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?Not the fear, Han saidI just like being a little smarter than the next guy.That's all it is?That, and I really hate paying taxes. -- James S.A. Corey
Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floorA brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a momentIsn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? -- Chelsea Fine
But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me. -- Marissa Meyer
Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? -- Chelsea Fine
He had no idea about the 'loving deeply' part. Scarlet was the one love he'd had. They'd married the weekend after they'd discovered they both like sangria. He'd thought they were waltzing through life and it turned out she was line dancing. -- Jodi Thomas
Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent meYou lost this, he said.I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behindI'm shedding. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding. -- Gabrielle Zevin
His dark hair was still wet and fell around his head in a tousled way that was too sexy for his own good.Scarlet wanted to run her hands through it - but oh wait. That could kill him.Definitely too sexy for his own good. -- Chelsea Fine
Why are the cute ones always such sociopaths?Win doesn't seem like so much of a sociopath, I replied without thinking.Oh, really? So, you think he's cute, do you? At least you're admitting it now.I shook my head. Scarlet was incorrigible.Admitting it is the first step, Annie. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. -- Ben Jonson
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. -- Mark McKinnon
Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone. -- Christian Dior
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. -- Pierre Loti
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. -- Hugh Hefner
When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another. -- Lauren Willig
If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens. -- Celia Imrie
Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call. -- P. C. Cast
The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform. -- Honorius Augustodunensis
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. -- George R. R. Martin
lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss. -- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever. -- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom... -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him. -- Hilari Bell
Exiled spirits, redas the spotless toe of a seraph spreadwith scarlet by the shame of rumpled dawns -- Stephane Mallarme
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Like an ocean on fire, the red-tiled rooftops of Rome spread out before him, glowing in the scarlet sunset. -- Dan Brown
Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie saidI refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it! -- Diana Wynne Jones
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together! -- Thomas Parsons
Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it! -- Diana Wynne Jones
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. -- Leo Tolstoy
Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time. -- Bryan Cranston
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. -- Leo Tolstoy
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. -- Luther Burbank
Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them. -- Steve King
It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire. -- Gene Wolfe
In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood. -- Henry Van Dyke
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. -- Isaiah
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. -- Sharon Kay Penman
This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold. -- Bailey Bristol
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower. -- Osbert Sitwell
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. -- Chuck Palahniuk
... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began... -- John Geddes
Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . . -- D. H. Lawrence
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh." -- Julie Taymor
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever. -- John Steinbeck
She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field. -- David Paul Kirkpatrick
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death. -- Siegfried Sassoon
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemonsoff the tree! I don't wantto forget who I am, what has burned in me,and hang limp and clean, an empty dress - -- Denise Levertov
His eyes tracked the scarlet trail to its beginning: the top of the stairs leading to the parking lot.My Livia will come to me on this path. -- Debra Anastasia
She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood. -- Tanith Lee
The big bad monster wasn't green and hiding under the bed, it wore tasteless floral prints, bright scarlet lipstick and sat in the kitchen smoking and saying 'bollocks' alot. -- Jo Brand
Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe! -- Henry Rollins
A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills. -- Bliss Carman
Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runesAre you sure this'll work, gen'ral? Of course I'm sure- Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet. -- Hilari Bell
His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul, and Desire had come to meet it on the way. -- Oscar Wilde
He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering. -- Oscar Wilde
Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet. -- Hilari Bell
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? -- Countee Cullen
It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick. -- Ernest Hemingway
Truly, Autumn is my season, the scarlet beast chortedSpring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Truly, Autumn is my season, the scarlet beast chorted. Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love. -- Catherynne M. Valente
I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage. -- Elizabeth Taylor
When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already. -- Sarah Rees Brennan

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