Top 100 Set Fire Quotes
#1. Her voice was gentle, patient - why was it making him want to set fire to something?
Leigh Bardugo
#2. I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend's house.
Kathy Bryson
#3. You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.
D.D. Barant
#4. Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.
Susan Marie
#5. Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member
if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.
Michael Chabon
#6. What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"
"Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight."
"What?"
"I set fire to the boat."
"But we're on the boat!"
"I know.
Anthony Horowitz
#7. We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
John Lennon
#8. At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird.
Harlan Ellison
#9. I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
Jerry Lee Lewis
#10. I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#11. Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett
#12. Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.
'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.'
... from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.
Markus Zusak
#13. You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.
Libba Bray
#14. Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at birth. Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#15. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!
William Shakespeare
#16. A friend of mankind with shaky moral foundation is a cannibal of mankind, to say nothing of his vainglory; insult the vainglory of one of these numberless friends of mankind, and he is ready at once to set fire to the four corners of the world out of petty vengence
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. I set fire to his bed one night while he was in it. I'd be obliged if you wouldn't mention that, though, as they never found out who did it, but the police got involved and things were rather unpleasant at school for a while.
Clara Benson
#18. I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin
#19. He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I an idea why.
Wow. Oh wow.
Lilith Saintcrow
#20. I like Balotelli: he's even crazier than me. He can score a winner, then set fire to the hotel.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#21. Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.
Harold Schechter
#22. He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean - privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.
William H Gass
#23. Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!
David Letterman
#25. With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. Do you want to set fire to the whole world and burn with it?
Let's do it together. You fix the price.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#27. Sometimes it pours
and sometimes ...
I just set fire to the rain.
Jose N. Harris
#29. Intensely craving a salad of green papaya with bird chilies that tore your mouth apart, that burned your lips, set fire to your heart.
Kim Thuy
#30. They burn down Satanist churches, perform exorcisms on politicians, and they once crucified a street mime. Upside down. And then they set fire to him. A lot of people applauded.
Simon R. Green
#31. I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
Leon Bloy
#32. If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set fire to his clothing one night.
Anonymous
#33. Professor McGonagall, the Headmaster set fire to a chicken!"
"He wha-
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#34. In the early days of the project, Teller was concerned that the intense heat of a nuclear explosion would set fire to the atmosphere and kill every living thing on earth. A
Eric Schlosser
#35. To her you're just a play thing; she'll make you out to be a king, then she'll set fire to your throne.
Phar West Nagle
#36. Sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.
Larry Niven
#37. In a way I couldn't believe I'd carried a torch for her this far - I should have used it to set fire to her years ago.
Mike Gayle
#38. He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad
"Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford
Jasper Fforde
#39. I'm angry enough to set fire to a house just by looking at it ... I'm angry enough, at last, to stop being afraid of life, and angry enough ... before I die to fucking well live.
Claire Messud
#41. Alma had told him once that to smell burning was a symptom schizophrenics suffered from, adding "but then they probably set fire to things quite often, so it's bound to be a tricky judgement call.
Alan Moore
#42. We'll watch the stars fade and the moon disappear. We'll watch the sun set fire to the horizon. And we'll talk about the future one last time before it's actually upon us.
Marieke Nijkamp
#43. You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.
Neil Gaiman
#44. When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
Mignon McLaughlin
#45. They're all crazy, Oncat. Invisible armies, monster princes. Let's go set fire to something.
Leigh Bardugo
#46. I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
#47. One can no more set fire to the sea,
than convince people of the dangers of happiness - And yet, we know that though the smallest shock is fatal
to the filled up bottle, that shock will not break
the empty one.
Omar Khayyam
#48. What am I to you?'
Sophiel smiled.
'The sun. You are my sun, like Astrid said. My sun, that lights up my life. That looks after me with its fiery rays. I only have to turn towards it for it to set fire to my heart.
A.O. Esther
#49. A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
Honore De Balzac
#50. My voice wouldn't work right. I made a tiny nod instead, because - how's this for weird? - I didn't want him to let go of me. He'd pulled back a little, with just his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I had an idea why.
Wow. Oh, wow.
Lili St. Crow
#51. My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
Marquis De Sade
#52. I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.
Dylan Thomas
#53. And if that's all he's looking for then we'll set fire to his balls."
"What?" Storm's face twists in a mixture of shock and amusement.
I shrug. "What can I say, Storm? I'm into some weird shit.
K.A. Tucker
#54. His thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies
Samantha Shannon
#55. I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.
Adolf Hitler
#56. I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.
Daniel H. Wilson
#57. He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and passion furrowing his brow...He is my perfect storm...
Virginia Alison
#58. Dan Cahill thought he had the most annoying big sister on the planet. And that was before she set fire to two million dollars.
Rick Riordan
#59. I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.
Harper Lee
#60. Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage.
Joseph Heller
#61. My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Mason Cooley
#62. What shall we do with ... the Jews? ... set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.
Martin Luther
#63. I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers ... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin
#64. We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.
Kenji Miyazawa
#65. Cauthon lives," Arganda said. "And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled out of it somehow."
"Ha!" Abell Cauthon said. "That's my boy.
Robert Jordan
#66. I take it you know my companion?"
Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything."
Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.
Simon R. Green
#67. Exactly. They dumped gasoline all over the gym and set fire to it. When no one was there training, luckily," Olympia says. "How can you be so sure it was them?" "They called me at home to let me know.
Pierdomenico Baccalario
#69. What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues ... Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses ... That one should drive them out the country.
Martin Luther
#70. A smart woman would have walked away then. She would have lit a match and set fire to the entire clusterfuck that was this situation. But I was never a smart woman, and if you didn't believe me, all you had to do was ask my mother.
A. Zavarelli
#71. The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
Ben Aaronovitch
#72. It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.
Daniel Quinn
#73. I should advise you not to stop there, but set fire to his house, too, and sell his children to pirates. That is the only way he will learn
Zen Cho
#74. Your heart is burning strong with righteous indignation... That flame is scattering sparks that may set fire elsewhere. That fire of yours will one day spread to others seeking a just world. The point is whether you have a torch in your heart or not. To light a fire to others.
Sui Ishida
#75. The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I'm telling myself so I don't set fire to anything.
David Milch
#76. I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
Marilyn Manson
#77. I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!
Camille Claudel
#78. It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#79. As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point to set fire to the human spirit.
Thomas Merton
#80. One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.
Thomas Sowell
#81. I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.
Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah
#82. I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
Anthony Horowitz
#83. There are times on Earth when extraordinary consciousness invades everyday life. There are times on Earth when unseen forces make a calamity of the status quo. There are times on Earth when it seems as though a divine arsonist has set fire to the world as we know it.
- We live in such times.
Jacob Nordby
#84. In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.
Stephen King
#85. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
Joseph Heller
#87. Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying.
"Green wood," I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.
Megan Whalen Turner
#88. A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.
Tom Morello
#89. Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
#90. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#91. I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.
John Wayne
#92. A favorite Palestinian tactic was to set up a couple of cannons or rocket launchers in a Christian village, fire a few rounds into Israel, and then quickly withdraw, knowing that Israel's return fire would fall on innocent Christian civilians.
Brigitte Gabriel
#93. Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
Charles Spurgeon
#95. It wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the last drink of the evening, or I'm not going to set the bitch's house on fire.
Melissa De La Cruz
#96. It's raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants out to set them on the fire-escapes, as if they were infirm relatives or Boy Kings. I like that.
Alan Moore
#97. Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
Anthony Liccione
#98. Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.
H.W. Brands
#99. Forever, Edward echoed in my ear.
I couldn't speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire.
I wouldn't have noticed.
Stephenie Meyer
#100. Maybe because when hearts are set on fire, no complications can extinguish the flame.
Brittainy C. Cherry
