Moths Quotes
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In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
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More 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.
— 1847 Wuthering Heights, ch.34, closing words.
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.
— 1910 Literary Lapses,'A Manual of Education'.
Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name.
james thomson— James Thomson, Liberty, Part IV, line 609.
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I (1812), Stanza 9.
Please, take care of my beautiful moths.
— Who: Oscar Botcherby
— Source: The Two Doctors: Episode 3 (1985)
— Notes: .
