Spiders - Quotes and Proverbs

Arachnophobic? Be careful when reading this list of proverbs and quotes about spiders. I found many spiders in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.

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A large spider sat in the middle of a frosted web in the brambles.

J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

A spider spins his web strand by strand.

A spidery handwriting.

Having thin long bent lines like a spider's legs.

Big flies break the spider web.

Hagrid had been known to befriend giant spiders, buy vicious, three-headed dogs from men in pubs and sneak illegal dragon eggs into his cabin.

J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban

He beat the creature off with his hands - it was trying to poison him to keep him quiet, as small spiders do to flies - until he remembered his sword and drew it out.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About Bilbo.

He loved maps, as I have told you before; and he also liked runes and letters and cunning handwriting, though when he wrote himself it was a bit thin and spidery.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again

If spiders are many and spinning their webs, the spell will soon be very dry.

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.

If you wish to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.

In the end he poked his head above the roof of leaves, and then he found spiders all right. But they were only small ones of ordinary size, and they were after the butterflies.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
What Bilbo sees after climbing a tree

It is the web, not the spider, that catches the fly.

Laws are like cobwebs where the small flies are caught and the big ones break through.

Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look for me?

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Part of Bilbo's song about spiders

Somehow the killing of a giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of a wizard or the dwarves or anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.
"I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting."

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About Bilbo

The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs: dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About the forest.

The spider and the fly can't make a deal.

The spider lay dead beside him, and his sword-blade was stained black.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo killed a spider

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

Bible
Source: Proverbs 30:28

The spiders swelled with rage, and spluttered and frothed, and hissed out horrible curses;

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders

The spiders web lets the rat escape and catches the fly.

Then the great spider, who had been busy tying him up while he dozed, came from behind him and came at him. He could only see the thing's eyes, but he could feel its hairy legs as it struggled to wind its abominable threads round and round him.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo is attacked by a spider