This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when…

As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

“Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.”

— Scott Spencer

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

— St. Jerome

'Scorpion' has so much humor and so much heart and a great deal of action.

— Nina Tassler

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I…

— Walter O'Brien

“A scorpion will only strike you if you get close to it and it feels endangered, but this is not the case with a…

— Ibraheem Abbas

He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999…

— Richard Virenque

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him…

— Gregor Piatigorsky

“I prefer male enemies to female ones; I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

— Dion Fortune

“Mosca had preferred it when she could hear the edge in her companion’s voice. Now she felt like someone who knows that there is…

— Frances Hardinge

“What color was the scorpion? I remembered the question Henenu had asked me years ago. The answer was vital: brown scorpions didn't have the…

— Esther Friesner

I hear say, Woppi King have a sound system from himself, named The Scorpion. But him cant get no record. Well, the girl who…

— Laurel Aitken

“He was horrible and fascinating all at once, like a scorpion prepared to strike, all angles and sharp lines and menace.”

— Kelly Creagh