Louse Quotes

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. (Samuel Johnson)
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. View quote
Leonard Maltin
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. View quote
Desi Arnaz
Well, Gosse, would you like to know what I think of Churton Collins? I think he's a Louse on the Locks of Literature. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul and nasty Clothes to harbor and breed in, as an Effect of divine Providence, design'd to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness. View quote
John Ray
"He is a lesser figure than X”-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse. View quote
Elias Canetti
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension. We see him only the way a louse sitting upon him would. View quote
Albert Einstein
Yes - you, you alone must pay for everything because you turned up like this, because I'm a scoundrel, because I'm the nastiest, most ridiculous, pettiest, stupidest, and most envious worm of all those living on earth who're no better than me in any way, but who, the devil knows why, never get embarrassed, while all my life I have to endure insults from every louse - that's my fate. What do I care that you do not understand any of this? View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. View quote
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
A louse in the locks of literature. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Government doesn't louse up everything, but it sure louses up a lot of what it promises to deliver. (Jim Geraghty)