Fire Quotes - Page 22

• The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

  Ouida

  Spring, Night, Years

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.197

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• Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

  Ouida

  Love, Men, Oil

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.69

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• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Epic, Rushing

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• Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Courage, Cutting, Purpose

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.356

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• Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Long, House, Bags

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

  Ann Landers

  Disappointment, Past, Love Is

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

  William Hazlitt

  Anger, Spirit, Disposition

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• [On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Country, Writing, Political

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• It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Endurance, Energy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2399, Delphi Classics

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• A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Women, Thinking

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• Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Angel, Sacrifice, Wings

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Autobiographical and political”

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• When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Leader, Crosses

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• You are yoked with a lamb,
  That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
  Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,
  And straight is cold again.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Lambs, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

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• A saleslady holds up an ugly dress and says, 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

  Rita Rudner

  Clothes, Dresses, Looks

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• When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  House, Pressure, Cry

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• As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Character, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Hands, Risk

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3635, Delphi Classics

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• The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
  Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunshine, Long, Desert

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• Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

  Ovid

  Heart, Sorrow, Rage

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• There is, they say, (and I believe there is),
  A spark within us of th' immortal fire,
  That animates and moulds the grosser frame;
  And when the body sinks, escapes to heaven;
  Its native seat, and mixes with the gods.

  John Armstrong

  Believe, Heaven, Soul

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.111, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

  Katherine Paterson

  Wells

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• The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

  Peg Bracken

  Rocks, Eggs, Long

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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• How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Power, Order, Lust

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