L'amour a son instinct, il sait trouver le chemin du coeur comme le plus faible insecte marche a'   sa fleur avec une irre¤  sistible volonte¤   qui ne s'e¤  pouvante de rien. Love has its own instinct. It knows how to find the road to the heart just as the weakest insect moves towarditsflowerbyanirresistiblewillwhichfearsnothing.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Femme de trente ans.

If a traveller were informed that such a man was Leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians came to worship an insect.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Of Lord John Russell.  Attributed.

   The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on the Spring, l.25^30.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Of Edwards's criticism of  Thomas Warburton. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigenTr a« umen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

-Kafka, Franz
  Metamorphosis, ch.1.