Spiders Quotes

• Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Simple, Complexity

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• Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

  Charles Addams

  Normalcy, Chaos, Illusion

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• The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
  Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Garden, Bugs

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 217

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• A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years...

  Shel Silverstein

  Dream, Dust, Years

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• There is nothing to fear but fear itself. And spiders. ~Bumper sticker~

  Darynda Jones

  Irrational Fear, No Fear, Fear Of Death

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• These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

  Anacharsis

  Law, Feet, Literature

  "Greek Lives". Book by Plutarch, translation by Robin Waterfield, p. 50, 1998.

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• In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

  Paul Eldridge

  Inspirational, Learning, Facts

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• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

  William Blake

  Best Friend, Friendship, Happiness

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.

  Mary Howitt

  Deception, Spy, Littles

  'The Spider and the Fly' (1834)

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• I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.

  Holly Valance

  Karma, Rooms, Ants

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

  Henry James

  Experience, Tissues, Spider Web

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Funny, Beauty, Nature

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Enemy, Busy

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.547

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• It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

  John Keats

  Men, Atheism, Literature

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.647, Delphi Classics

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• Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

  Bill Watterson

  Design, Grace, Looks

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Coraline, Enough, Spider Web

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

  Carl Sandburg

  Morning, Night, Waiting

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Much like a subtle spider which doth sit
  In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide;
  If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,
  She feels it instantly on every side.

  Sir John Davies

  Garden, Sides, Thread

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.695

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

  Voltaire

  Men, Years, Sorrow

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• There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

  Alan Davies

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

  Tryon Edwards

  Strength, Chains That Bind, Broken

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on 'til they look like spiders, that's just what I do.

  Julianne Hough

  Light, Eyelashes, Trying

  "Five Questions with Julianne Hough". www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009.

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• The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets ‘Spider-Man.’ Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

  Manohla Dargis

  Summer, Winning, Men

  "Women Directors Nearly Absent in 2013 Awards Season" by Robert Abele, variety.com. December 11, 2013.

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