Candle Quotes

• She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Remember
  • Nervous
  • I Wonder

• What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

  

  Rumi
  • Darkness
  • Hurts
  • Blesses

• To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

  

  Alberto Santos-Dumont
  • Wall
  • Pushing
  • Dirigible

• "I can see in the dark." "That may be so, Mulla. But if it is true, why do you sometimes carry a candle at night?" "To prevent other people from bumping into me."

  

  Nasreddin
  • Dark
  • Candle
  • Bump

• Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Learning
  • Inspiration
  • Achievement

• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Water
  • Air
  • Baby

• O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Christianity

• If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Gains

• Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Help
  • Creatures
  • Candle

• A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Candle

• These blessed candles of the night.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Blessed
  • Candle

• I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Voluptuous

• There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

  

  Nicollette Sheridan
  • Hair
  • Firsts
  • Gone

• Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Christ
  • Clothes
  • Might

• Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle

  

  Rumi
  • Beauty
  • Judge
  • Candle

• Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Logic
  • Candle
  • Ignores

• All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

  

  Confucius
  • World
  • Darkness
  • Candle

• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • inspirational

• My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Wish
  • Sister
  • Breaths

• Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

  

  Rumi
  • Body
  • Fire
  • Touched

• Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

  

  Rene Russo
  • Daughter
  • Wishes
  • Pennies

• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Productive
  • Alternatives
  • Investing

• Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room.

  

  Aftab Alam
  • Hope
  • Dark
  • Candle

• By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Age
  • Light
  • Candle

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