fire quotes

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‚Happy Birthday.‘

It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.