Red Imported Fire

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

    “I shall go among red faces and virile voices,
    See stylish sheep, with fine heads and well-wooled,
    And great bulls mellow to the touch,”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    “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)

    “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)