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Quotes About Scarlet

Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
~ Gene Wolfe
Except . . . that would put her in Scarlet's bedroom. She'd instantly become a suspect. But saying nothing made her feel even worse—it was probably a huge crime to lie to a police officer, right?
~ Sara Shepard
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. -Sherlock Holmes
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The sunrise sky was creeping over the edge of the city in orange-and-scarlet striations, and the clocks were or were not chiming seven.
~ Scott Lynch
hazy October sky. A muted lime-green aurora shimmered behind the clouds as if the black birds were swimming against a frothy tide. The hardwood trees on the surrounding Appalachian slopes were gone to gold and scarlet, and the strange light hinted at the gray winter waiting ahead. One of the crows
~ Scott Nicholson
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A set of phrases learnt by rote;A passion for a scarlet coat;When at a play to laugh, or cry,Yet cannot tell the reason why:Never to hold her tongue a minute;While all she prates has nothing in it.
~ Jonathan Swift
The ginger she-cat behind him is Scarlet, and the silver tabby is O'Hara.
~ Erin Hunter
A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.
~ Glen Cook
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
War doesn't have a kingdom," she said. "War belongs to the whole world. Come on, my little scarlet Horseman. Have a drink.
~ Mary Gentle
A bloodstained, scarlet sky, streaked with finger-smears of black and handfuls of hard-flung gold. Then a watery dawn rises out of the marshlands, pale blues and greys and muddied-down greens, like daybreak in a virgin's watercolour.
~ Joseph O'Connor
But Red's blood kept gushing out. Her fur turned as scarlet as the sunrise behind them, as if her life were bleeding into the sky.
~ Erin Hunter
When she of the night Drinks from he of the day The curse of the moon May the sun's curse allay. When she succumbs To the were's Scarlet Heat And is bred by the wolf Then meat may she eat And nevermore fear The sun's golden light When she drinks from the one Who howls in the night.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.
~ Mark McKinnon
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Across from me, Taylor was openly crying now. Her sobs were muffled by the silver gag but I could see the scarlet tears running down her cheeks. Her eyes were fixed on the fresh burn on my cheek and I knew she shared my pain. A fresh surge of love and protectiveness washed over me.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Delightful,' Eliza murmured. 'He looks so well against the scarlet hangings, don't you agree, Jane? One should always have a decorative young man about the room, and well-bred if one may contrive it; it lends so much tone to the display.
~ Stephanie Barron