The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I…

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

— Oscar Wilde

“Once upon a time You dressed so fine”

— Bob Dylan

“Oh Izzy, girl how do you let him get dressed. A shame, oh it is a shame to let that man ever put clothes…

— Harper Sloan

I spend most of my life in sports kit, so it usually shocks people when they see me in casual clothing - let alone…

— Johanna Konta

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

— Isaac Watts

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

— William Butler Yeats

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain...

— Winfield Townley Scott

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they…

— Primo Levi

“To love unconditionally, is to live as free as a Monarch Butterfly in Spring.”

— Laila Doncaster

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed.…

— William Wordsworth

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

— Dante Alighieri

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book.…

— Karl Kraus

“At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had taught me. From every vantage…

— Mary Simses