Scarlet Quotes

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.

Bright reds – scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry – are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

‘The Scarlet Gospels‘ does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high – or low, depending on your point of view – in its excessiveness, in its extremities.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

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

When I was a kid, I had scarlet fever. I wasn’t supposed to have survived it. When I got out of bed, my bones were so soft that they kind of bent. I had a slight limp for probably three years after.

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.

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

I’m so proud of the community we’ve been able to bring together, and the notion of women making the first move is no longer taboo; it’s no longer a scarlet letter to have a voice.

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.

After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all… I went through the stage of asking myself, ‘Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can’t be.’ So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn’t want me to just read children‘s books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was ‘The Sign of the Four‘; ‘Study in Scarlet’ was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

Regardless of any thing that I’ve done that people might think, ‘Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,’ that’s not how it works.