Candlelight Quote by John Fowles Download Open image ““She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.”” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candlelight Humor Women
“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. ” — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When all seems dark and there is no light, Hope is the candle that always burns bright.” — Divya Singh Copy Share Image
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the… — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
“A candle is not lighted for itself; neither is a man. The light that serves self only, is no true light; its one virtue… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“With one candle you can bring light to a dark room, but you can never bring darkness in a well lit room.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
“Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.” — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Just before six, Bee pulled three wineglasses out of the cabinet and uncorked the bottle of white that Greg had selected for us. "Light the candles, dear, will you please?" I reached for the matches and thought about the dinners at Bee's house during my childhood. Bee never served a meal without candles. "A proper supper requires candlelight," she'd told… — Sarah Jio Copy Share
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
“When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly flickering candles… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his bare skin causing his muscles to fall into sharp relief. He’d washed the river gunk out of his hair and now he threw it back, the water droplets shimmering in the light. The scene looked… — Karen Chance Copy Share
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're… — Diane Frolov Copy Share
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich may… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share
After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked… — Anonymous Copy Share
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image