mosquito quotes

I am perfectly aware that the mosquito and sandfly have a purpose in this world, but why don't they attend to it? Their destiny is to keep down microscopic insects†but their sphere of useiswhentheyareinthegrub state.Why don't they stick at that and not trouble innocent unoffending prospectors who can't carry a curtain?

- Charles Douglas
Quoted in  J Pascoe (ed) Mr Explorer Douglas (1957).

A story with a moral appended is like the bite of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

-O Henry pseudonym of  William Sydney Porter
  Strictly Business,'The Gold That Glittered'.

But a word stung him like a mosquito† For what they hear, they repeat!

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  Fa c° ade,'Tango-Pasodoble'.