Fly/maggots

Famous quotes containing the words fly and/or maggots:

“The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“Genghis Khan, in his usual jodhpurs accessorized with whip, straddled a canvas chair and gloated upon the fairyland he had built. Journalists, photographers, secretaries, sycophants, script girls, and set dressers milled and stirred around him, activity ... irresistibly reminiscent of the movement of maggots upon rotting meat.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)