The Scarlet Fever Quotes

#1. You've had the scarlet fever, haven't you?" "Years ago, when Meg did. Why?" "Then I'll tell you. Oh, Jo, the baby's dead!" "What baby?" "Mrs. Hummel's. It died in my lap before she got home," cried Beth with a sob. "My

Louisa May Alcott

#2. Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#3. It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

John Steinbeck

#4. I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Pierre Loti

#5. Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

Archie Kalokerinos

#6. 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.

Wilma Rudolph

#7. It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."
"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#9. Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

Luther Burbank

#10. 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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder