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Quotes About Flame

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
~ William Congreve
Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.
~ Ann Reinking
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
~ Pierre Corneille
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
~ Katherine Philips
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
~ T. S. Eliot
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
~ Dante Alighieri
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
~ Adyashanti
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
~ Bob Dylan
Love is a divine flame.
~ Catherine of Genoa
The flame of sun which will come out just now for a blinding minute into your eyes is saving nothing, no one, take your communion, your blood is full of barren fields, they are the future in you you should learn to feel and love: there will be no more: no more: not enough to go around: no more around: no more: love that.
~ Jorie Graham
A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.
~ Jose Rizal
Then a beautiful silver-pelted she-cat took his place. A lithe tabby tom followed. His touch set the flame-pelted tom's fur rippling as though he were running through wind.
~ Erin Hunter
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
~ Bernard Williams
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
~ Bhagavad Gita
Deep in the heart of every American, I think there burns a flame. It's an inheritance from every generation of Americans that has come before us. That's why we have overcome every crisis we have ever faced before. It's what makes this nation so special, why we stand apart. That flame is not going to be extinguished in this moment. If our leadership does its part, the American people will do more than their part.
~ biden joe iii
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
~ William Butler Yeats
I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from now, one that would be rhythmic as verse, precise as the language of the sciences, undulant, deep-voiced as a cello, tipped with flame: a style that would pierce your idea like a dagger, and on which your thought would sail easily ahead over a smooth surface, like a skiff before a good tail wind.
~ Gustave Flaubert
He remembered, though, that his favorite servant had been sacked for kitchen misdemeanors; once for making toast by lying on his back and suspending bread from between his toes over a flame, and on a second occasion for cleaning celery with a toothbrush--his own brush, as it happened, not the Master's, but that was no excuse.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places. Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating. Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.
~ Hannah Senesh
Crois-tu que la flamme de l'âme puisse périr dans les flammes du bucher?
~ Hans Christian Andersen
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.
~ Terence Fisher
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
~ William C. Bryant
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
~ Hal Borland
He lit his pipe, and the match head in that room of paper and leather flared up like an idea.
~ Sheridan Hay