Top 100 The Flies Quotes
#1. Shut the damned door. you're lettin' the flies out.
Sumner Wilson
#3. Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.
Gayle Forman
#4. We went into the laser tag room, paranoid, delirious, and shot at one another. It was a little like Lord of the Flies but with more 98 Degrees.
Katie Heaney
#5. Over them, in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note.
John Le Carre
#6. Like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#7. As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited.
Eugene B. Sledge
#8. Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures
take them, George, they're yours!
Ogden Nash
#9. Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim.
Julius Lester
#10. I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
Fred Thompson
#11. The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly's Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I
Pierce Brown
#12. The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
Benjamin Franklin
#13. I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood - kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things.
Justin Theroux
#14. Block D was at the farthest corner of the camp from Block C. Whoever had laid out the Camp of the Flies had no respect for alphabetical order.
Susan Kaye Quinn
#15. Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
Thornton Wilder
#16. The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass
Richard Brautigan
#17. If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
Jose Saramago
#18. The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.
William Trevor
#19. They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna." "When did you read Pollyanna?" "It was a book?
Orson Scott Card
#20. -I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
William Golding
#21. It is wondrous, Will Henry," breathed the monstrumologist over the maddening hum of the flies. "I feared we might be wrong-that Socotra was not the *locus ex magnificum*. But we have found it, haven't we? And is it not wondrous?"
I agreed with him. It was wondrous.
Rick Yancey
#22. soon after we arrived in the U.S., Baba started grumbling about American flies. He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed. "In this country, even flies are pressed for time," he'd groan.
Khaled Hosseini
#23. In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
Miriam Makeba
#24. When Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather, the flies and the spiders get along together.
Cake
#25. He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
George Orwell
#26. Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!
Marie Corelli
#27. Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
John Dryden
#28. Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?"
"Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!
Groucho Marx
#29. Lord of the Flies is so boring ... and so weird. I always thought boys were very very strange, but I didn't think they would start eating each other.
Louise Rennison
#30. Sad as it seems, I miss both the flies and Ma with equal measure.
Barry Napier
#31. The shadows of the tombstones in the graveyard stretched out long and violet, and the sound of the flies buzzed in my ears, louder than the ringing of the shots that still came - were coming closer - to the frail barrier of the dead.
Diana Gabaldon
#33. The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.
Robert Adams
#34. the question is not whether more flies can be caught with honey than with vinegar, but why the flies are being caught in either case - and how this feels to the fly.
Alfie Kohn
#35. A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes
Roy Bean
#36. I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.
W.C. Fields
#37. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.
William Golding
#38. America indeed has become a progressive nation, if we understand "progressive" to mean progressing away from God, his incomparable blessings, and the moral foundation that made America great, and advancing toward a mythical utopia where mankind is in control of mankind (think "Lord of the Flies").
Ron Brackin
#39. To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.
Russell Kirk
#40. The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys.
Kim Harrison
#41. As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.
Mark Burnett
#42. I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn't study 'Lord of the Flies.'
Eliza Taylor
#43. Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.
Terry Wogan
#44. How easily Neverland is corrupted into the deserted island of Lord of the Flies. How quickly Tinkerbell regresses to being one of the flies pestering the gouged eye sockets of the pig that the lost boys butcher.
Gregory Maguire
#45. I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.
Brendan Fraser
#46. I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Johnny Depp
#47. Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works its will in the world.
Orson Scott Card
#48. Those called penny bags. Each of them got a brand-new penny on the bottom. The light reflecting off the penny supposed to confuse the flies, so they don't come around and bother the food, although every time I see a fly, they confused enough already. Know what I mean?" Queenie chuckled.
Laura Lane McNeal
#49. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
But what if I don't want to catch the flies? What if I'd rather see them swatted?
Mindy McGinnis
#50. am the guy with the flies. I am the one that dies.
Nick Cave
#51. Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.
Paula Sharp
#52. When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.
Stephanie Beacham
#53. I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the Tour du Silence, I left them. Where the faceless dead faced the sky, I left them there at the center of the world.
Rick Yancey
#54. She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then
Carolyn Brown
#55. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'
Suzanne Collins
#56. The flies festered over the bodies, in some way aware that the war had ended and determined to hoard every morsel of flesh for the coming famine of the peace.
J.G. Ballard
#57. A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.
Charles Bukowski
#58. 'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.
Suzanne Collins
#59. In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.
Morris Gleitzman
#60. I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.
Groucho Marx
#61. Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day.
Redd Foxx
#62. Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers
it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen.
Piper Kerman
#63. I said with great dignosity, Father, I am afraid I can't discuss my private life with you as I have a date with Lord of the Flies.
Louise Rennison
#64. Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#65. A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those titles have been very successful and interesting to watch. Any time anyone refers to any of those great shows, I'm flattered.
Marie Avgeropoulos
#66. The flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too, was like life
and as meaningless.
Stella Gibbons
#67. I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.
Bill Bryson
#70. And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.
John Malkovich
#71. I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Natasha Lyonne
#72. We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#73. The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell.
Suzy Kassem
#74. It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.
Denise Mina
#75. To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.
Jonathan Weiner
#76. I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart.
Dennis Lehane
#77. Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go naked."
When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
George Orwell
#78. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
Ray Bradbury
#79. Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
Philip Zimbardo
#80. Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
Charles Caleb Colton
#81. According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
Andre Sainte-Lague
#82. Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#83. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks
#84. All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.
Dani Shapiro
#85. The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
Guillermo Del Toro
#86. Faith is a strange creature," Schuster said. "Like a falcon that nests year after year in the same place, but then flies away, sometimes for years, only to return again, stronger than ever.
Mark T. Sullivan
#87. When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.
Kenneth R. Miller
#89. The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.
Elinor Wylie
#90. Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore De Balzac
#91. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#92. The boys and girls are one tonight.
They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies.
They take off shoes. They turn off the light.
The glimmering creatures are full of lies.
They are eating each other. They are overfed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.
Anne Sexton
#93. But it's like time is sort of ... balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see.
Anne Tyler
#94. For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
Lauren DeStefano
#95. Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
Robert Draper
#96. Somethin in me has been set free from a cage I never knew was there. It flies with Yellachile at night, and we go together on the wind.
Robert McCammon
#97. People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again
James St. James
#98. And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.
Jane Seymour
#99. Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon.
Albert Camus
#100. We should have another code for when you're about to hit someone."
"Very well. How about 'the sparrow flies south for winter'?"
"Seriously?"
"What's wrong with it? It's a classic.
Derek Landy
