Smoke And Fire Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh, Sean O’Casey, William Shakespeare, Horace Greeley, Jennifer Crusie, Henry David Thoreau and many others.
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
A cigar has “…a fire at one end and a fool at the other.”
Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Fire is the most tolerable third party
The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise. “Smoke and fire,” she said. “Clanging on metal all day long. You’re scaring away the birds!” “Oh, no, not the birds!
No man may earn his heart’s desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!–my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
