Flea Quotes

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea. (Sean O`Casey)
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. View quote
Samuel Johnson
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. View quote
Herman Melville
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. View quote
Ursula Andress
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first. View quote
Ethel Merman
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. View quote
John Donne
So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there. View quote
April Bowlby
I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay. (Chelsea Leyland)
Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market. View quote
Gail Collins
I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky. View quote
Lynda Barry
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. View quote
John Adams
The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him.... Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better! View quote
Ian Holloway
This flea which I have in mine ear. View quote
François Rabelais
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
I do honour the very flea of his dog. View quote
Ben Jonson
New Dresden is not a McWorld: it's a shitty little flea hole populated by pathologically suspicious Serbs, bumptiously snobbish Saxons, three different flavors of Balkan refugee, and an entire bestiary of psychopathic nationalist loons. The planetary national sport is the grudge match, at which they are undisputed past masters. I say "past masters” for a reason-they're not as bad as they used to be. The planet has been unified for the past ninety years, since the survivors finished merrily slaughtering everyone else, formed a federation, had a nifty little planetary-scale nuclear war, formed another federation, and buried the hatchet. View quote
Charles Stross
A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident. (A. E. Housman)
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism. View quote
Ransom Riggs
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. View quote
Neil Innes
That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea. View quote
Sara Shepard
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays. View quote
Zoe Kravitz