Sting Quotes

208 quotes by 179 authors

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! — Dante Alighieri
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked… — Chanakya
I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a… — Jarvis Cocker
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience. — George Horne
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted… — Woodrow Wilson
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans… — George S. Patton
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities… — Mark Twain
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. — Grantland Rice
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer. — Cyril Connolly
I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet. — Adelaide Anne Procter
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's… — Peter Forsyth
[On Sting] He threw a sucker punch. There's the sucker who threw the punch. Him the the Bart Simpson hair doo. — Bobby Heenan
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For… — William Shakespeare
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt… — John Burroughs
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a… — Fredrika Bremer

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