Flies

Famous quotes containing the word flies:

“I don’t know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.”
—Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)

“The Tory camp is now in sight,
And there he cowers within his den;
He hears our shouts, he dreads the fight,
He fears, and flies from Marion’s men.”
—William Gilmore Simms (1806–1872)

“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)