By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above…

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

— Walt Whitman

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble…

— Anonymous

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur…

— Pierre de Ronsard

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She…

— Michael Ondaatje

“That’s the problem with letting the light in—after it’s been taken away from you, it feels even darker than it was before.”

— Kim Liggett

I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and down four…

— Li Cunxin

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and…

— Francis Bacon

“Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances-…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to chop off your head.”

— Neil Gaiman

To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Emotions would be half starved if there were no candle-light.”

— Thomas Hardy

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

— Eric Andre