“Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“- like flies, only more foolish, because we celebrated our captivity.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“Any hot plans for the weekend, Peabody?” “My usual, flicking off men like flies, breaking hearts, crushing souls.” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I try to sing along but the music's all wrong. 'Cause I'm not, 'cause I'm not I swat 'em like flies but… — Radiohead Copy Share Image
“No beast will let us settle for knowing / facts swarming on a label like flies on carrion.” — Ricardo Pau-Llosa Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“You can’t walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you… — Missy Lyons Copy Share Image
“There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment -- click goes the camera and on goes life, the… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Some say that to the gods we are like flies that boys idly swat on a summer day. Others say that not… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Have you ever climbed a mountain in full armour? That's what we did, him going first the whole way up a tiny… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Like flies in custard.” “Worms in ice cream,” said Donna. “Maggot jelly,” said Eugene.” — Alan MacDonald Copy Share Image
People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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