Scarlet Quotes

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.