"Dolce far Niente", Stanza 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.”
Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
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“Speak to me."
"I hate you."
"Okay." Mad Rogan let go of me. "You're fine.”
Source: Burn for Me

“The flowers you gave me are rotting
And still I refuse to throw them away”
The Flowers
Soviet Kitsch (2004)

Entertaining his guests at the modest Pattom palace, in "Royal vignettes: Travancore - Simplicity graces this House (30 March 2003)"

“The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

The Glenn Beck Program
Premiere Radio Networks
2010-05-18
After attacking Media Matters, Beck says: "You will have to shoot me in the head. We are not stopping"
2010-05-18
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005180014
2010s, 2010

“Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.”
6 February 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”
The Sick Rose, plate 39.
Source: Songs of Experience (1794)
Context: p>O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.</p

“Let others laugh flower-burial to see:
Another year who will be burying me?”
Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760)