Candles

Famous quotes containing the word candles:

“Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary’s feet.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“There’s husbandry in heaven,
Their candles are all out.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)