68 Quotes About Lamp

An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.

It was that time of dusk when there is a—deepening of the interior shadows. It is a melancholy time: all you need do is switch on one lamp and the inside and the outside will separate, held apart by the reflections in the glass, and evening will begin.

Had I been educated by my employers as to how hazardous mercury filled spectral lamps were, I would never have taken an obsolete mercury filled spectral lamp home.

He opened his shirt and lowered his trousers. 'Bring the light over!' he ordered. I held the lamp close to the thin, tanned body. What with deep scars, bullet and sword marks, his body was like a collander. 'Now look at the other side!' He turned round and showed me his back. 'Not a scratch on the back, you see. Do you understand? Now take the lamp back.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

It’s not too late,” he says. “Zahra, I—”“Sh.” I lay a finger across his lips. “Don’t say it. You will marry Caspida, and you will learn to love each other. You will live a happy life, long after my lamp has passed to new hands.”“I won’t make my third wish,” he says. “That’s the answer! If I don’t make the wish, you can stay here in the palace for as long as you want. You’ll never have to go back to your lamp. We can fight off anyone who tries to take you from me.

Goodbye, Zahra,” says the princess, and she pulls her arm back, preparing to throw the lamp.“Do it, Princess,” says a voice, “and I will tear your head from your shoulders.

[T]he ground directly beneath the lantern is always the darkest.

The holy lamp is forever burning; Holy Bible