Quote by Mary Roach

“What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology.…

— Mary Roach

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

— William Shakespeare

“Like flies in custard.” “Worms in ice cream,” said Donna. “Maggot jelly,” said Eugene.”

— Alan MacDonald

“Flies are annoying by nature and their behavior will never change; we can only keep them away. We should do the same with toxic…

— Rodolfo Peon

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?

— Dwight Frye

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Science words,” I warned. “When you say ‘hemoglobin’ I just think of little Irish tricksters who live in caves, or Lord of the Rings.”…

— Temple West

“Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of…

— Lewis Padgett

“At night she’d close her eyes and imagine: over a hundred million billion insects hatching and dying every year—all those bristling, pointed, winged lifetimes:…

— Anthony Doerr

Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all…

— Sarah J. Maas

I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils.

— Ben Silbermann