Flies

Famous quotes containing the word flies:

“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)

“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)

“O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)