Top 55 Candle Quotes

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I’ve never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell – urggh!

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I’ve been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to ‘The Larry Sanders Show.’

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

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.

I think there’s something in the human psyche that we’re titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

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

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

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

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

I’ve met plenty of CMOs in life, and I always say that I’ve never met any that can hold a candle to rock stars, who I truly believe are the greatest brand managers in the world.

My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you – I am totally over it.

I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don’t have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.

Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn’t have electricity, we’d be watching television by candle light?

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that ‘it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.’

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn’t hold a candle to being a scientist. There’s a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.

I love getting anything homemade – anything that’s from the heart. If you can make or craft your own something, that always goes above and beyond, like, a candle – which is great, but if it’s homemade, that’s so much better for me.

Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren’t sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’

I have completely tired myself out before – but I think that’s natural, we all find it difficult to find balance. It’s something I’m a great advocate of now, because I’ve had to learn the hard way, but I think 2018 was the year I burnt the candle way too brightly at both ends.

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.

My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She’d go in, light a candle, she’d pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

I’m a big candle guy.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light!

Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’

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!

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don’t know what it is, anybody’s only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

When God comes into your life, He lights a candle in your soul.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

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.

Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

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.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‘in denial’ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

After our first week of filming ‘Deadpool 2,’ Blake Lively got me a candle. It smells really good, and it said, ‘To Firefist’ on it.

Man loves company – even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

Nothing you’ll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

Who needs a candle snuffer? You have air to blow out a candle. I don’t need a snuffer to put it out.

I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

When I was seven, I decided to buy all my friends some ice cream, but the problem was where to get the money. Sneaking into church, I went to the side of the altar where you can light a candle for your loved ones and took the money from the collection boxes.