Top 33 Wax Quotes

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You’ll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I’ve ever been with another woman.

Normally for photo shoots I get a full wax, some tanning, a facial.

I’m one of those low-maintenance people – let’s get it done and get going. It’s not that painful to wax, but… I don’t have time for it – just give me the razor.

I’m not a blood and guts person. I remember seeing ‘House of Wax’ as a teenager in 3D. This was years ago, the original ‘House of Wax’, and that was scary enough for me that I thought I’d never see another one.

I had a body wax. It’s the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.

I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: ‘That’s unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.’ It really interested me.

The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people’s changing tastes.

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.

When I came out, I found I hadn’t been born with the right genes. It’s quite brutal. If you’re beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don’t, it’s a different ball of wax.

Avedon wouldn’t let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They’re the whole ball of wax.

Many of us endure pain in the service of beauty every single day. We rip off our hair with hot wax, jam our soft skin into modern-day corsets, and burn our scalps with dyes.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I’m not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones.

The system! The whole stinking ball of wax. It’s a scam!

You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I’m all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don’t have confidence, none of it matters.

It’s the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it’s in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir… I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

There’s a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.

I’m Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I’m not so good at keeping it up.

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire… that’s the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall… with wax crayons.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

I’m not a fan of plastic surgery. Oh, and I’ve never had a wax in my life. Waxing makes no sense to me because you have to grow it out to wax it.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.