100 Red Quotes That Will Inspire Passion and Love

Fired up for the color red?

Then you’ll love these red quotes!

I’ve gathered amazing 100 quotes that express this passionate color:

• Red lipstick quotes
• Quotes about the color red
• Red dress quotes
• Quotes about red and love or passion!
• And more…

Ready to feel the heat? Let’s go!

Red Dress Quotes

Let’s start with the power of wearing red! From lady in red quotes to the guy with a red power tie, these are perfect to caption your Instagram pictures.

The power of a red dress.
~ Moira Young

Your eyes will always go to red, which is why there is a lady in red in all my shows.
~ Florence Klotz

To wear red is to be the fire in the midst of the crowd.
~ Unknown

Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.
~ Laura Bush

In red, you feel naked even when you are dressed.
~ Chloe Thurlow

Candy apple red is my favorite color. It’s a powerful color to wear.
~ Carly Rae Jepsen

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
~ Maria Sharapova

When we put on a dress, we give it life; but in the red dress it is the opposite, it is not the dress that is given life, but the one who wears it!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan

Today I wear red and I truly let go, losing my way and finding my soul.
~ Shilpa Ahuja

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.
~ Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

The only song I can sing is ‘Lady in Red’ so that must tell you how great it must have been.
~ Diane Kruger

People write stories about the damsel in distress. If only Cinderella had a red dress in her closet, she wouldn’t need a prince to save her.
~ Shilpa Ahuja

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A red dress gives the confidence to walk out, the freedom to live and the power to conquer.
~ Shilpa Ahuja

Life is simple, it’s either cherry red or midnight blue.
~ Lou Gramm

She’s wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
~ Kathryn Stockett

Never trust a man in red trousers.
~ Mika

Two things in the world are not meant to be hidden – love and your red dress.
~ Unknown

Some girls are born be nice. Others are born to wear a red dress.
~ Shilpa Ahuja

When in doubt, wear red.
~ Bill Blass

Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige

There is a shade of red for every woman.
~ Audrey Hepburn

My mind goes into party mode when I wear red!
~ Shilpa Ahuja

A tale of love with Lady in Red dress…
~ Dawaa Tamangg

The lady in red, paused my eyelids, to blink, she winks, with a feeling of blue.
~ Soumojit Dutta

There is certainly a red for everyone.
~ Christian Dior

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
~ Lady Gaga

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Quotes About the Color Red

If you want to understand red better, you could dive into the red color meaning… or just listen to these famous artists and writers talk about it!

When I haven’t any blue, I use red.
~ Pablo Picasso

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
~ Stephen Crane

Red’s my favorite color.
~ Chyler Leigh

Red was the only color worthy of that name, the only true color.
~ Michel Pastoureau

When in doubt, make a red painting.
~ Kay WalkingStick

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.
~ Terry Tempest Williams

Some people can’t see the color red. That doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
~ Sue Grafton

Red has always been my color, because red stands out.
~ Ravyn Lenae

Red goes with everything and red goes with nothing.
~ Chloe Thurlow

Don’t paint the apple; paint the red.
~ Arthur Lismer

Red is one of the strongest colors, its blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well… In fact, I use red in all of my paintings.
~ Keith Haring

Pink is just fancy red.
~ Daphne

Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
~ Anish Kapoor

Painters use red like spice.
~ Michael Derek Elworthy

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.
~ Alexander Calder

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

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Red Lipstick Quotes

If you need a kiss of glamour, go for red lips!

Heels and red lipstick will put the fear of God into people.
~ Dita Von Teese

She has a way with words, red lipstick, and making an entrance.
~ Kate Spade

Red lipstick has always been a powerful thing to me.
~ Nikita Dragun

A red lipstick speaks all about your confidence.
~ Aquina Coldfearther

Put on some red lipstick and live a little.
~ Marilyn Monroe

If you want a man to notice you, just wear red lipstick.
~ Monica Bellucci

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
~ Man Ray

Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red.
~ Rihanna

I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.
~ Heather Morris

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.
~ Adela Florence Nicolson

Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.
~ Christina Aguilera

Red lipstick is instant glamour.
~ Charlotte Tilbury

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I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick.
~ Gwendoline Christie

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.
~ Heather Morris

Red lipstick always does the trick.
~ Isabel Marant

Sometimes I wear red lipstick – it makes me feel sophisticated.
~ Leandra Medine

All I need is my Chanel dress, my Louboutins, and some red lipstick.
~ Blake Lively

Red lipstick aside, I firmly believe that less is more in terms of make-up.
~ Emilia Wickstead

Well, my smile’s pretty hard to miss, considering I’m a gal who likes her lipstick – the redder the better.
~ Dolly Parton

Any time that I have a bright red (lipstick), I’m like, ‘Here I am. Who’s ready for me?’ Even if no one’s ready.
~ Issa Rae

Nothing says confidence and glamour like a classic red lip.
~ Bobbi Brown

I have every shade of red lipstick you could imagine – literally.
~ Rita Ora

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
~ Wilfred Owen, The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Resolve to worry less and rock a red lip.
~ Mary Kay Ash

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Red Quotes About Love

If you feel red is love’s proper hue, then these quotes are perfect for you!

I love your lips when they’re wet with wine and red with wicked desire.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for long standing relationships.
~ Ruskin Bond

Our love is like a red, red rose… and I am a little thorny.
~ Jim Carrey

In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.
~ Taylor Swift

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love, and red signifies love.
~ Elton John

Red is for fire
Red is for love too
It lies in our hand
What we wanna choose.
~ Shivangi Lavaniya

Red is the great clarifier bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red. It would be like becoming bored with the person you love.
~ Diana Vreeland

Blood is blood and it’s all red. Show me what’s in your heart and in your eyes.
~ James Frey

He says I’m beautiful as a red tomato.
~ Jeanne DuPrau

I’m in love with red. I think it’s such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red in it. Its power, there’s no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don’t. I think it’s blood and strength and life. I do love red.
~ Bryan Batt

I always liked red. It’s a picker-upper. Red, of course, is the color of the interior of our bodies. In a way it’s inside out, red.
~ Anish Kapoor

The color red is associated with romance and blood, but not at the same time.
~ Dov Davidoff

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Passionate Red Quotes

Red isn’t all about sweet love. Sometimes it’s anger and blood!

Red protects itself. No color is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
~ Derek Jarman

The red carpet can hide more than just blood stains.
~ Anthony T. Hincks

If hot red is for anger and rage, pink is the color of a soft burning – hot enough to light up the dark corners of sadness and grief, but cool enough to be tender, innocent, open.
~ Ibi Zoboi, American Street

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
~ Taylor Swift

You burn like hell, pure red and stormy and I fly like smoke, pure black and gloomy.
~ Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy

A monster, some called her. But in the shadows, only said in whispers, she was an angel in red.
~ Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest

People abusing their power makes me see red.
~ Neil Jackson

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
~ Bill Blass

Blood on the ground. We dance with the burning fire in our soul. As we rise as RED as the dawn.
~ Keziah Ruth D. Lingco

Red leaves the other colors blushing with emotions.
~ Anthony T. Hincks

Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possible to imagine a face forming in lines of fire.
~ Stephen King, It

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More Quotes with Red

Never enough red, you say? Great, we have more!

I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
~ Proverbs 23:31

The red was something none of them could contain.
~ E.J. Koh

Doubt is a great worm in a crispy, red apple.
~ Sally Gardner

Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
~ Isaiah 63:2

I’m not a natural redhead, but I enjoy having red hair.
~ Jane Levy

Red-red wine, you make me feel so grand.
I feel a million dollars when you’re just in my hand.
~ Neil Diamond

The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.
~ Nahum 2:3

I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I always liked red. It’s a picker-upper.
~ Nancy Reagan

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
~ Claes Oldenburg

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
~ Isaiah 1:18

Quotes for Red Lovers

I hope you found some rousing red quotes to make picture quotes online or use for Instagram captions.

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If you love even more colors, you might want to check out color meanings.

Or head over to this list of quotes for every season and reason!