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Fire Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
- My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was
- Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
- That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
- Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but…
- Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
- Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends;…
- Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.
- Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
- I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my…
- This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.
- Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution
- A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
- Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
- It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.
- The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
- Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires…
- Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate…
- Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow…
- Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.
- In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid
- As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
- I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
- O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
- These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
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