the boys were flocking to her like flies to shit.

“There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment...”

— Nancy Mitford

People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

— Robert Frost

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's…

— Thornton Wilder

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather…

— Jean Paul

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

— Bertrand Russell

Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among…

— Rose Macaulay

“dropping like flies.”

— Suzanne Wright

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

— Charles Simic

“Have you ever climbed a mountain in full armour? That's what we did, him going first the whole way up a tiny path into…

— Peter Shaffer

“You can’t walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you like flies…

— Missy Lyons

“He fawns over ye like flies to a dung pile.”

— Leigh Ann Edwards

“Any hot plans for the weekend, Peabody?” “My usual, flicking off men like flies, breaking hearts, crushing souls.”

— J.D. Robb

Catches thieves just like flies.

— Ramones

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

— Melville Fuller

“No beast will let us settle for knowing / facts swarming on a label like flies on carrion.”

— Ricardo Pau-Llosa