Scarlet Empire

Famous quotes containing the words scarlet and/or empire:

    “when I see the beauty of your face,
    Ye been so scarlet red about your eyen,
    It maketh all my dreade for to dyen;”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)