#candle

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ↗

— Jane Porter

#candles #depriving #flame #imparting #knowledge

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

#excuse #i #late #poor #scribbling

A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #death

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#candle #electricity #knit #like #need

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#chancellor #failing #george #his #hold

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. ↗

— George Carlin

#edison #electric #electric light #gas #had

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery. ↗

— Maria Monk

#branch #business #candles #important #manufacture

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#arts #began #candle #definition #god

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#candle #devil #god #light #principle

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#candle #even #i #immediately #know