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Quotes About Candles

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
~ Cat Deeley
In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.
~ Ronda Rousey
When the candles are out all women are fair.
~ Plutarch
There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
~ Proverb
There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.
~ Ray Bradbury
A dozen, a hundred, a thousand candles flared until it looked as if the great Andromeda star cluster had fallen out of the sky and tilted itself to rest here in the middle of almost-midnight Mexico.
~ Ray Bradbury
The candles, the orange gleam of firelight where she'd been standing made me think of the warmth of the wine bar, as if the light itself might be a passageway back to the night before and the little wooden table where we had sat knee to knee, her face washed with the same orange-tinged light.
~ Donna Tartt
the only light came from a lamp which threw a sharp white circle on melted candles, computer cables, empty beer bottles and butane cans, oil pastels boxed and loose, many catalogues raisonnés, books in German and English including Nabokov's Despair
~ Donna Tartt
A dozen candles flickered around the room's periphery. They shimmered at the swoosh of air as Robby swung the door closed.
~ Alan Jacobson
I see candles as varied things. They give a warm glow, and fire purifies.
~ Dimple Kapadia
My mom and I used to always get these Bath & Body Works candles but I like anything that smells warm. I love vanilla.
~ Jordyn Woods
Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.
~ Ralph Levy
Some candles are $40, and you burn them for two days and they're done.
~ Carole Radziwill
I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.
~ Bobby Lee
I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.
~ Deirdre O'Kane
I did candles because I wanted a candle to put in my home. I couldn't find one I liked.
~ Matthew Williamson
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
He also loved candelabra.
~ Julian Barnes
I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.
~ Kate Thornton
I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
~ Traci Bingham
O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
~ William Butler Yeats
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
~ William Butler Yeats
To an Isle in the Water Shy one, shy one, Shy one of my heart, She moves in the firelight Pensively apart. She carries in the dishes, And lays them in a row. To an isle in the water With her would I go. She carries in the candles, And lights the curtained room, Shy in the doorway And shy in the gloom; And shy as a rabbit, Helpful and shy. To an isle in the water With her would I fly.
~ William Butler Yeats