Red Banner Orders

Famous quotes containing the words red, banner and/or orders:

    “The sable presbyters approach
    The avenue of penitence;
    The young are red and pustular
    Clutching piaculative pence.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “And before, with banner red,
    Through the blizzard snow unseen,
    All unharmed by hail of lead,
    With a step like snow so light,
    Showered in myriad pearls of snow.
    Crowned in wreath of roses white,
    Christ leads onward as they go.”
    —Alexander Blok (1880–1921)

    “Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)