Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or scarlet:
“No speech can stain what is noble by nature.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“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)