1.
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
2.
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
3.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
Horace
4.
I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
Nancy Reagan
5.
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 PĂ©rez-Reverte
6.
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
7.
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.
Dave Barry
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I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black
Stephenie Meyer
9.
I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.
Oscar De La Hoya
10.
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 can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
Ambrose Bierce
11.
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!
Emilie Autumn
12.
Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
Avicenna
13.
The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.
Rebecca Solnit
15.
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
Mary Wollstonecraft
16.
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
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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