Like Flies Quotes

30 quotes by 26 authors

• Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. — Groucho Marx
• Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies. — Jules Renard
• Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. — Anatole France
• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,… — Charles Baudelaire
• Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic
• Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the… — William J. Clinton
• I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and… — Raymond Briggs
• Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies… — Ibn Taymiyyah
• The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on… — Charles Bukowski
• Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage! — L. Neil Smith
• Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round… — Jean Paul
• You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad… — Tom Petty
• Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle… — Diane Setterfield
• 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
• People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same… — James St. James
• He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O… — Said Nursi
• Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on… — Thomas Wolfe
• People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my… — Ilona Andrews
• For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. — Lauren DeStefano
• You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something… — Ilona Andrews

Who Wrote These Like Flies Quotes

26 authors contributed a total of 30 Like Flies Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Like Flies Quotes by Ilona Andrews
• 2 Like Flies Quotes by Savannah J
• 1 Like Flies Quote by L. Neil Smith
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Jean Paul
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Tom Petty
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Diane Setterfield
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Like Flies Quote by James St. James
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Said Nursi
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Thomas Wolfe
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Lauren DeStefano
• 1 Like Flies Quote by David Almond
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Peter O'Toole
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Melville Fuller
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Ramones
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Radiohead
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Elizabeth Banks
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Groucho Marx
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Jules Renard
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Anatole France
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Charles Baudelaire
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Charles Simic
• 1 Like Flies Quote by William J. Clinton
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Raymond Briggs
• 1 Like Flies Quote by Ibn Taymiyyah