(145 quotes found)
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
Charles Dickens
“I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.”
Dan Castellaneta
“The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them”
Thomas Jefferson
“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
Walter Savage Landor
“From a little spark may burst a flame.”
Dante Alighieri
“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark”
“The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliot
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
Walter H. Pater
“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
Charles Caleb Colton
“A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.”
William S. Burroughs