
“You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 16, section 3 (p. 635)
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 16, section 3 (p. 635)
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
Source: Delta of Venus
“A burnt child loves the fire.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The burnt child dreads the fire.”
Act I, scene 2
The Devil Is an Ass (performed 1616; published 1631)
Part II, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”
“4436. The burnt Child dreads the Fire.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)