“for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”
Source: Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert98
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“Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.”
Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician
"Voices Within the Ark", ibid.
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side", John Davies, The Immortality of the Soul.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Dracula, speaking to Harker at his castle
Dracula (1931)
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Mariage à la Mode, Act ii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John Davies (poet) (1569–1626) English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569
The Immortality of the Soul (c. 1594). Compare:
:"Our souls sit close and silently within / And their own webs from their own entrails spin; / And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such / That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch." John Dryden, Mariage à la Mode, act ii. sc. 1.;
:"The spider’s touch—how exquisitely fine!— / Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Alexander Pope, Epistle i. line 217.
