Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) British writer
I Strove with None (1853). The work is identified in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th edition (1919) as Dying Speech of an old Philosopher.
Quoted in W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge, The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1944, p. 161.
“Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.”
Kim Wilde (1960) English pop singer
Shangri-la
Teases and Dares (1984)
“A burnt child loves the fire.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The burnt child dreads the fire.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Act I, scene 2
The Devil Is an Ass (performed 1616; published 1631)
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“4436. The burnt Child dreads the Fire.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Poverty is what I am writing about, and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum.”
George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Context: I am trying to describe the people in our quarter, not for the mere curiosity, but because they are all part of the story. Poverty is what I am writing about, and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum. The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own experiences. It is for that reason that I try to give some idea of what life was like there.
“I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
