Scarlet Letter

Famous quotes containing the words scarlet and/or letter:

    If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.
    John Locke (1632–1704)

    This is my letter to the world,
    That never wrote to me—
    The simple news that Nature told,
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)