Top 50 Candles Quotes

I bring incense, essential oils, and candles to make my hotel room feel more like home.

Bob Hope said: ‘You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.’ And while this quote is generally amusing, it is even more amusing when you know he said that when he was old.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

I love candles.

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who… burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

I’m a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don’t turn on my computer for 24 hours.

I always pamper myself with scented candles. They make the room look beautiful and me feel pretty.

I love prayer candles, and I use them often.

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

I have always had an obsession with candles.

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

I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.

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

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

There used to be a time when people used to hold up cigarette lighters and candles at concerts, and the place was aglow to celebrate the end of the evening, or during a slow song, there was this congregational euphoria that used to exist. It still does, but now it’s a question of iPhones being held up.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don’t think Botox is for me. I think it is bad. People who have too much, they look like their faces are full of candles – a shiny, shiny face.

Watching Rachel Maddow is like going to Target. You went in for milk, but you left with shampoo, candles, and the entire history of the Byzantine Empire. ‘I didn’t need this.’

I have way too many candles. There’s always a candle burning at home.

I love how most people in ‘Sixteen Candles’ don’t actually look their age. It adds to the movie’s funky and low-budget vibe.

In the evening I love lighting all my candles. It creates such a beautiful ambiance.

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It’s my fault. But I shouldn’t have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.

I never want to lose touch with reality. I won’t push $100 candles just because. I realized that I could create a hub of positivity and affirmation.

For me, candlelit is the only way to have a dinner. There are always candles at my table. And I like to have Luis Miguel playing in the background.

But ‘Sixteen Candles’ is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.

The best thing about summer entertaining is it doesn’t have to be fancy – and you can eat outdoors. You can use a tablecloth or just a piece of fabric you love. You can’t go wrong with white candles; put them in jars or hurricane vases.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I’m not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

I am not at all a romantic person, I hate flowers and candles… rather find it irritating.

I had never seen the classics with Molly Ringwald, like ‘Pretty in Pink’ or ‘Sixteen Candles,’ or ’80s horror, like ‘Poltergeist,’ ‘Close Encounters,’ and ‘Nightmare on Elm Street.’ I went back and watched all of those.

Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles… I can’t think beyond them.

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.

On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu – meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.

I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg once and couldn’t really move around, I started playing around with it… putting the scent inside and dried flowers, and that’s it.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

My guilty pleasure is listening to Enya in the bathtub. I do bubbles. I do essential oils. Candles, if they’re around.

I’m a child of the ’80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies – ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Sixteen Candles,’ ‘Dirty Dancing,’ etc., with ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’ existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.

I love Hanukkah because it’s so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don’t have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I’m blowing out candles gives me hives.

The vibe of my wedding is kind of going to be ethereal. Simple and modern, in a way, but with a lot of greenery. So, eucalyptus, olive branches, moss, and candles – it’s going to be very… I want it to feel very comfortable, but obviously sleek.

I did candles because I wanted a candle to put in my home. I couldn’t find one I liked.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone’s age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there’s something very spiritual about it.

For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype – ‘Sixteen Candles,’ the Long Duk Dong character.

Most evenings I’ll light a few candles, get snuggled on the sofa, and read a magazine.