Flames

Famous quotes containing the word flames:

“Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms
And flames laid waste our world,
All that was left me was a little garden
And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?”
—William James (1842–1910)

“Lust gratifies its flames in the chambers of the sacristans more often than in the houses of ill-fame.”
—Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)