Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

My life is extravagant.

— Trudie Styler

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That…

— Tom Baker

I'm not extra, I'm not going to be the person walking around the house in an extravagant gown during quarantine.

— KiKi Layne

“I am filthy. I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. My skin is encrusted with the scabs and scales…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“She crowned him with a whisky bottle and her tongue was full of lice and tomorrows.”

— Henry Miller

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a…

— Anonymous

“Glory of war, indeed! In war, all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at Verdun, at…

— George Orwell

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates…

— Karl Kraus

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps…

— Ziya Tong

When I was a child, headlice were something to be mentioned in hushed horror. There was undoubtedly an element of snobbery in this, since…

— Rebecca Front

“Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!”

— Anton Chekhov

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

— Ron Fournier

“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the…

— Martin Luther

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the…

— Anne Lamott

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

— Elias Canetti