Quotes About Red Heads

Many of these quotes have been circulating for a while; some were sent to me or just collected over time. I make no claim as to accuracy of the noted speaker's statements, but I did attempt to verify as many as possible.

-- "You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."
(by character Anne Shirley speaking to her guardian Marilla in book 'Anne of Green Gables')

-- "Please just call me red-headed and forgive me."
(Anne to her love, Gilbert, in 'Anne's House of Dreams')

-- "When a fellow has a home and a dear, little, red-haired wife in it what more need he ask of life?"
(Gilbert speaking in 'Anne's House of Dreams')

-- "Fairy queens must be slender. Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor. Josie says she thinks a red-haired fairy is just as ridiculous as a fat one, but I do not let myself mind what Josie says."
(Anne tells Marilla about the upcoming concert in 'Anne of Green Gables')

-- "Yes, it's green," moaned Anne. "I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair. But now I know it's ten times worse to have green hair. Oh, Marilla, you little know how utterly wretched I am."
(Anne, after trying to dye hair, to Marilla in 'Anne of Green Gables')

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*** The following quotes are by: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (1881-1975) comic writer, known for English prose:

"Red hair in Wodehouse usually spells Trouble (with, as you may have noted, a capital 'T')..."
(The P.G. Wodehouse Society)

"I would always hesitate to recommend as a life's companion a young lady with quite such a vivid shade of red hair. Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."
(By Jeeves in 'Very Good, Jeeves')

"He found himself face to face with an extraordinarily pretty girl. She was a red-haired girl, with the beautiful ivory skin which goes with red hair.
...She was not the prettiest girl he had ever seen...But there was a subtle something about her. A sort of, how-shall-one-put-it, which he had never encountered before. He swallowed convulsively. ...At last, he told himself, he was in love, really in love, and at first sight, too, which made it all the more impressive. ...But she had bitten him in the arm. That was hardly the right spirit. That, he felt, constituted an obstacle."
(From 'The Girl on the Boat')

"It ought to be a criminal offense for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?"
(by Bill in 'Indiscretions of Archie')

Quote from POEM by Sylvia: "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and eat men like air."
(Sylvia Plath, author)

• "There is more, much more, to being a redhead than the color of one’s hair."
  (G. Adam Stanislav, red-haired photographer)

• "Redheads are less than 1% of the world's population. Now that is a minority! And, I thought, one that should qualify me for school scholarships or something like that."
  (Becky McAlpine)

• "All throughout history, from Reuben to Robbins, redheads have been recognized as a rare breed. Blondes may have more fun, brunettes may be brainier, but when it comes down to raw energy, creativity, and personality ... you just can't beat a redhead well, you can, but beware ... she'll probably beat you back!"
  (Redheads Unlimited ??)

• "Redheads are dry and easily irritated. And that's just talking about their skin!"
  (Apparently by a dermatologist)

• "I am strong. I am invincible. I am redhead."
  (Seen on T-shirt)

• "Two women in the house - and one of them a redhead!"
  (Character 'Michaleen Flynn' in John Ford's movie "The Quiet Man")

• "Of course, part of the problem with redheads is that there aren't enough of them. They make up just two percent of the population. So they're pretty extraordinary. Redheads are too numerous to be ignored, too rare to be accepted."
  (Grant McCracken, author, lecturer, anthropologist)

This "POEM ABOUT REDHEADS"
is a version of a Longfellow poem....

"There once was a girl with a strawberry curl
right in the middle of her forehead,
And when she was good she was very, very good
But when she was bad she was horrid."

...BUT ORIGINAL POEM IS...

"THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL"

"There was a little girl who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very good indeed.
But when she was bad she was horrid.

(Original: by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

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