Red Imported Fire

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

    O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
    So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,
    Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

    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)

    To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion—far less by the white fire of love.
    Mary Webb (1881–1927)