Scarlet Quotations

I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

When they first started doing these, ... a lot of women would kiss the envelopes with lipstick just the way they do with love letters. So as they were going through the processing machines, the lipstick would build up and it would jam the machines. So they had to do Public Service Announcements saying, 'Please don't kiss your letters!' It was called the Scarlet Scourge.

I think Andrew has had the scarlet letter on his forehead since the '60 Minutes' episode. It was only a matter of time.

Our job's done, ... but he's gotta live with that scarlet letter for the rest of his life.

White flowering dogwoods will add year-round beauty to your home. Dogwoods have showy spring flowers, scarlet autumn foliage and red berries that attract songbirds.

When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.

We are tremendously excited and extremely fortunate. Mr. Nicklaus has been so wonderful in the Scarlet Course restoration project and this is just another act of kindness on his behalf. The Kepler will be a great success, and we are looking forward to competing on such a world-class golf course.

This Scarlet Letter approach was very effective in deterring similar thefts.

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

Ever since those reviews for SHOWGIRLS, it's like I was that woman in The Scarlet Letter. Except that instead of having to wear the letter 'A' for adulteress, I was condemned to wear an 'S' for showgirl.

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour.

The Scarlet Pimpernel' became a kind of archetype for many comic book heroes that are popular today,

'The Scarlet Pimpernel' became a kind of archetype for many comic book heroes that are popular today,

Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief.

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

If you're a lobbyist, you've got the Washington version of the scarlet letter tattooed on your back right now.

There is certainly a red for everyone.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Along the avenue of cypresses, / All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices / Of linen, go the chanting choristers, / The priests in gold and black, the villagers.

...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...

It loves more readily than it hates.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.

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.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed