Scorpion Quote by Anne Stuart

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

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

— Kelly Creagh

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present…

— Robert Toombs

“It is the scorpion's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“He wasn't marrying her. Even if she'd have him, which she certainly wouldn't, he had no intention of leg-shackling himself to such a difficult…

— Anne Stuart

The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire.

— Azgraybebly Josland

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...I'm momentarily transfixed, torn between curiosity and fear. I can pull it up the gently sloping mud bank, but then what? Already thought is…

— Jeremy Wade

“Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, ‘You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.’ ”

— Stephen King

“Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich