Stinging Quotes
40 quotes by 36 authors
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not…
— Chanakya
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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.…
— John Donne
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge…
— Dale Carnegie
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Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. . . [T]wo or three stinging strokes on the legs or…
— James Dobson
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There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his…
— Aesop
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof.…
— Gillian Flynn
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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like…
— H.G. Wells
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Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and…
— Ernest Dimnet
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On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking,…
— Dwayne Johnson
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Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit.…
— Camille Paglia
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How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a…
— Kenneth E. Hagin
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your…
— O. Henry
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I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. ...…
— Robert E. Howard
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Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the…
— Marge Piercy
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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next…
— Lewis Thomas
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Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and…
— Janet Fitch
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I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but…
— John Green
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.…
— John Fowles
Who Wrote These Stinging Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 40 Stinging Quotes, led by these top contributors: