Spider Quotes · Page 4

“Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly”

— Mary Howitt

“For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.”

— Jeremias Gotthelf

If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save…

— Jacqueline Emerson

Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.

— Woody Allen

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

— Virginia Woolf

“This must be what a fly felt like when it was caught fast in a spider's web.”

— R.K. Lilley

Seeing a spider is nothing. It becomes a problem when it disappears.

— Aicel

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

— Anne Bishop

I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up…

— Kyle Schmid

“The old man stared at me with his bright green eyes. “You’re Gin Blanco, Genevieve Snow, and the Spider all rolled into…

— Jennifer Estep

It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion'…

— Walter O'Brien

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she…

— Louise Bourgeois

Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big…

— Nicola Adams

If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it…

— Matt Smith

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate…

— Helen Vendler

Out of all of the Spider-People, including Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy has the most over-developed sense of responsibility.

— Seanan McGuire

“She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing, this machine for gripping,…

— Ian McEwan

“Largest spider family Salticidae are jumping spiders and there are more of them by classification – or taxonomy – than any other.…

— Guinness World Records

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the…

— Anonymous

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a…

— Peter S. Beagle

“All of the creatures were staring fixedly at Boots. She was standing on the back of her loyal cockroach friend, Temp, smack…

— Suzanne Collins

“Somewhere, in some shadowy bedroom of a leaf-strewn town, a father bolts the door to a child's room, then steps closer to…

— Scott Heim

“Linda hadn't exaggerated her fear of the golden orb weaver spider. Up north at her cabin in Morley, I had once teased…

— Bob Tarte

“First, they needed to destroy the web. Then the spider would be powerless.”

— Kiersten White

I'm massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me.

— Robert Kazinsky

“The spiders that spin their webs in the corners make music that tells me of his approach.”

— Orrin Grey

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

— Cheryl Hayashi

Normal is only an illusion. What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly.

— Morticia Addams

“Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .”

— Frances Hardinge

I saw a spider in my bathtub, so I got a piece of tissue and very carefully…burned the house down.

— Anonymous

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

— Joanne Harris

For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.

— Cheryl Hayashi

“One person’s hairy spider is another person’s red-nosed clown,”

— J.D. Jacobs

“I'm pretty sure I saw him call out a battle cry to all his spider friends.”

— Jillian Dodd

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

— Demetri Martin

Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

— Kate Dickie

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

— E. B. White

“It is too. Who’d have imagine big, bad Lucian Bane is afraid of spiders.”

— Lucian Bane