Red Imported Fire

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

“The love that kisses with a homicide
In robes of red generation resurrects.”
—George Barker (b. 1913)

“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)

“Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.”
—Paul De Man (1919–1983)