Arms Quote by Gerald Durrell

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can…

— Cynthia Ozick

“The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and…

— Daphne du Maurier

Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes'…

— Jeaniene Frost

“If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls, who come…

— Philip Reeve

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the…

— Virginia Woolf

“The moth batted its wings angrily at him as it twisted and spun gracelessly in the green blades. “For Consort’s sake, throw us a…

— C. Kennedy

“But there are tens of thousands of butterflies: men and women like Eve with two dramatically different colorings—one which serves to attract and the…

— Amor Towles

“In the quarter where the sun should have appeared, the sky was covered by a strange reddish cloud, like smoke, like hot ashes, like…

— Alejo Carpentier

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

— Edith Wharton

“The butterfly with a wounded wing glided clumsily down to settle on a leaf by the spider's web. The spider knew he was there,…

— Howard L. Myers

The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden…

— John Ray

“Yesterday,’ she said, referring to the collective past of her tribe, ‘the people of these forests knew the secret. They made the finest silk…

— Lidija Stankovikj