Fly/maggots

Famous quotes containing the words fly and/or maggots:

“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)