Scarlet Letter

Famous quotes containing the words scarlet and/or letter:

    “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)

    “With the nippers to wheel round the houses
    And the hall to paint in his old trousers
    And that letter to her mother
    Saying Won’t you come for the summer.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)