| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire. |
| Ben Jonson | The burnt child dreads the fire. |
| Alexander Pope | Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire. |
| George Herbert | A crooked log makes a straight fire. |
| George Herbert | Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. |
| Hugh Latimer | Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. |
| John Marston | All the fatt's in the fire. |
| Persius Flaccus | Fit to give weight to smoke. |
| Persius Flaccus | Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
| Sir Thomas More | They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. |
| Thomas Gray | Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire. |
| Thomas Gray | E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. |
| William Cowper | Words pregnant with celestial fire. |
| William Wordsworth | O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live. |
| John Milton | Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire. |
| William Shakespeare | A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. |
| William Shakespeare | The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck, our gentle flame Provokes itself and like the current flies Each bound it chafes. |
| William Shakespeare | Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. |
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