Sting Quotes

208 quotes by 172 authors

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her… — Joseph Hall
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks… — Charles Churchill
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he… — John Tillotson
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them?… — Joanna Baillie
Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in… — Edward Topsell
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing. — Emily Dickinson
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him,… — Richard Savage
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seenâ€¦you will lose us every friend at the… — Robert Toombs
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing… — C.S. Lewis
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with… — John Quincy Adams
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs… — Andre Gide
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. — William Cowper
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? — W.C. Fields
You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made… — Christopher Hitchens
I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death. — Elton John
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. — Samuel Johnson
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. — Florence King

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172 authors contributed a total of 208 Sting Quotes, led by these top contributors: