Buzzing

Famous quotes containing the word buzzing:

“In the cowslips peeps I lie,
Hidden from the buzzing fly,
While green grass beneath me lies,
Pearled wi’ dew like fishes’ eyes,
Here I lye, a clock-a-clay,
Waiting for the time o’ day.”
—John Clare (1793–1864)

“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Poor harmless fly,
That with his pretty buzzing melody
Came here to make us merry. And thou hast killed him!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)