Butterflies Quotes

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. View quote
Charles Dickens
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that. View quote
Hans Haacke
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults. View quote
Brian Selznick
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots. View quote
Vernor Vinge
Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird! View quote
Nicole Kidman
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. (Carl Sagan)
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. View quote
Federico García Lorca
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. View quote
Charles Dickens
Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it. View quote
Marian Keyes
For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. View quote
Candace Bushnell
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often. View quote
Alice Hoffman
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art. View quote
Claude Simon
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. View quote
Glen Duncan
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. (William Moulton Marston)
You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses. View quote
Bill Gross
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. View quote
Brendan Gill
You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night. View quote
Damian Lewis
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. View quote
Franco Harris