Red Sayings and Quotes

The color red is a symbol for many things: passion, love, rage, danger, good luck. While the perception of the fiery hue varies, it’s rarely seen as demure. Embrace the powerful energy red exudes with the collection of wise and inspirational red quotes, proverbs and sayings below.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red. Andy Goldsworthy
If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red. Randall Terry
There is a shade of red for every woman. Audrey Hepburn
Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning. Ally Condie
Life is simple, it's either cherry red or midnight blue. Lou Gramm
Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red. Rihanna
Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash - I love that strangeness. Victoria Beckham
Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red. Anish Kapoor
Bet you don't know why the sun sets red. You see, light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest. Axel
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again. William Butler Yeats
Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyr'e all magic. Bryan Batt
Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison. Ellen Hopkins
The bride hath paced into the hall,Red as a rose is she. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day! William Wordsworth
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King
Want your pretty red lips, red lips / Girl you know what you do to me / You got that red lipstick on (on, on) / Baby kiss me til your lipstick gone (Ooh) Tremain Neverson
Red, red wine goes to my head / Makes me forget that I still need her so Neil Diamond
Red was the only color worthy of that name, the only true color. Michel Pastoureau
Red red wine, you make me feel so grand / I feel a million dollar when you're just in my hand Neil Diamond
When the only color is / Red sky in the morning / Everywhere I'm seeing / Red, red, red, red Walker Kevin
Cherish red, love, for the beautiful season is tinged with red! / Deep red are the flowers that dropp from the kesudo tree. Narsinh Mehta
The white rose and the red rose / So sisters two / were named / yes / named. The white one was so quiet / The red one laughed and flamed. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Red is the color of blood, and I will seek it / I have sought it in the grass / It is the color of steep sun seen through eyelids. Conrad Potter Aiken
For I think of you, flung down brutal darkness / Crushed and red, with pale face. / I think of you, with your hair disordered and dripping. And myself, rising red from that embrace. Conrad Potter Aiken
Red are the beaks of our feathered friends, the parrot and the myna! / Cherish red, love, for the beautiful season is tinged with red! Narsinh Mehta
Red lips are not so red / As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Wilfred Owen
What is red? a poppy's red / In its barley bed. Christina Georgina Rossetti
Full often when our fathers saw the Red above the Green / They rose in rude but fierce array, with sabre, pike and scian. Thomas Davis
Look real quickly over there / The hottest girl with auburn hair / She's a beauty not a queen / Queens don't come in red and green. Beau Golden
A bull becomes furious only if he is presented with a red cloth; a philosopher, on the other hand, goes into a rage as soon as the color is mentioned. Johann Von Goethe