Famous quotes containing the words red, imported and/or fire:
“And out of her bosom there grew a red rose
And out of Lord Lovels a briar, briar, briar,
And out of Lord Lovels a briar.”
—Unknown. Lord Lovel (l. 3840)
“If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
You may get a bland smile from these sages;
But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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