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)

“My arising prodigal
Sun the father his quiver full of the infants of pure fire ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)