quotes about Leeches
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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
-- Chris Brown -
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
-- Dalton Trumbo -
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Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.
-- Dave Barry -
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!
-- Emilie Autumn -
I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities.
-- George Saunders -
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
-- Horace -
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Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.
-- Jamelia -
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
-- Margaret Thatcher