Bonfire Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such…

— Napoleon On Robert Fulton's Steamship

“You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and…

— Janet Fitch

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

— James Lawrence

“Wild ideas popped up again in my head. What if I quietly went over and cut off the mooring ropes on one of the…

— Knut Hamsun

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...

— Tori Amos

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in…

— Margaret Atwood

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

— John Masefield

E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to my dead cinder, warms no…

— John Wilmot

Burning was the sunset like a portent of doom. On the saintly iron maiden as she fell from her wound.

— Cradle Of Filth

It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her…

— Charles Dickens