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Insects Quotes - Page 2

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

Bash? Matsuo, Basho, Asataro Miyamori (2002). “Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers”, p.89, Courier Corporation

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

Kobayashi Issa, “Even With Insects”

The Planet drifts to random insect doom.

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.187, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.737, GENERAL PRESS

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2886, e-artnow

Angels are just pretty insects.

Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.75, Hachette UK

I love insects. They are amazing.

"Andrea Arnold in Brontë Country". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.