Red Imported Fire

Famous quotes containing the words red, imported and/or fire:

“You can’t be a Red if you’re married to a civil servant.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“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 (1836–1911)

“I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)