Red Imported Fire

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

“She kisses her killed boy.
And she is sorry.
Chaos in windy grays
through a red prairie.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“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)

“My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)