“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)
“A burnt child loves the fire.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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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)
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus
Source: Delta of Venus
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 132
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) Austrian poet and author
“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“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)
