moths quotes

I lingered around them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

- EmilyJane Bronte« 
  Wuthering Heights, ch.34, closing words.

Unfading moths, immortal flies, And the worm that never dies. And in that heaven of all their wish, There shall be no more land, say fish.

- Rupert Chawner Brooke
  'Heaven'.

In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

- F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
  The Great Gatsby, ch.3.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

- Stephen Butler Leacock
  Literary Lapses,'A Manual of Education'.

Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity† His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.

- (Martha) Beatrice ne  e Potter Webb
  Of George Bernard Shaw. Diary entry, 8 May.