Affection Quote by William Shakespeare

“Entomologists have a name for young flies, but it is an ugly name, an insult. Let's not use the word "maggot." Let's use a…

— Mary Roach

“Forgoing eternally, sir, such things as, for example: two fresh-shorn lambs bleat in a new-mown field; four parallel blind-cast linear shadows creep across a…

— George Saunders

“A sudden gust made the branches of the trees shiver, raining down a few bright green leaves. A fly buzzed in the grass near…

— Holly Black

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

— Alan MacDonald

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

— Isaac Watts

“Calliope feathers on the wings of my hopes and my dreams, To some day fly high in the lavender sky. A warm wind caresses…

— Sherri Lynea Gerek

“The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and…

— Alan Garner

“There was only the sound of the July-flies, which seems to be inside your head like it is the grind and whirr of the…

— Robert Penn Warren

Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies!…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,…

— William Shakespeare

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—…

— William Shakespeare

“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

— Alice Hoffman